Georgia after Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet powerTimothy K. Blauvelt, Jeremy Smith Routledge, 2015 M11 19 - 214 pages This book explores events in Georgia in the years following Stalin’s death in March 1953, especially the demonstrations of March 1956 and their brutal suppression, in order to illuminate the tensions in Georgia between veneration of the memory of Stalin, a Georgian, together with the associated respect for the Soviet system that he had created, and growing nationalism. The book considers how not just Stalin but also his wider circle of Georgians were at the heart of the Soviet system, outlines how greatly Stalin was revered in Georgia, and charts the rise of Khrushchev and his denunciation of Stalin. It goes on to examine the different strands of the rising Georgian nationalist movements, discusses the repressive measures taken against demonstrators, and concludes by showing how the repressions transformed a situation where Georgian nationalism, the honouring of Stalin’s memory and the Soviet system were all aligned together into a situation where an increasingly assertive nationalist movement was firmly at odds with the Soviet Union. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
purges control and Georgian nationalism in the first half of the 1950s | 13 |
based on oral history interviews and archival documents | 32 |
the role of ideology youth and the Komsomol in the March 1956 events | 53 |
5 Nationalism after the March 1956 events and the origins of the nationalindependence movement in Georgia | 77 |
Deciphering Georgias 1956 | 92 |
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Georgia After Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet Power Timothy K. Blauvelt,Jeremy Smith No preview available - 2018 |