num_pages: 418
description: Like the other republics floating free after the demise of the Soviet empire, the independent republic of Georgia is reinventing its past, recovering what had been forgotten or distorted during the long years of Russian and Soviet rule. Whether Georgia can successfully be transformed from a society rent by conflict into a pluralistic democratic nation will depend on Georgians rethinking their history. This is the first comprehensive treatment of Georgian history, from the ethno-genesis of the Georgians in the first millennium B.C., through the period of Russian and Soviet rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the emergence of an independent republic in 1991, the ethnic and civil warfare that has ensued, and perspectives for Georgia's future.
language: English
title: The Making of the Georgian Nation
titlecomplete: The Making of the Georgian Nation
genres: Politics, Nonfiction, Soviet History, Russian Empire, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 65
publisher: Indiana University Press