Identities and Representations in Georgia from the 19th Century to the Present

✍ Scribed by Hubertus Jahn (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: German
• Leaves: 208
• Series: Schriften des Historischen Kollegs; 103
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Publication of Historisches Kolleg

This interdisciplinary volume explores various identities and their expressions in Georgia from the early 19th century to the present. It focuses on memory culture, the politics of history, and the relations between imperial and national traditions. It also addresses political, social, cultural, personal, religious, and gender identities. Individual contributions address the imperial scenarios of Russia’s tsars visiting the Caucasus, Georgian political romanticism, specific aspects of the feminist movement and of pedagogical reform projects before 1917. Others discuss the personality cult of Stalin, the role of the museum built for the Soviet dictator in his hometown Gori, and Georgian nationalism in the uprising of 1956. Essays about the Abkhaz independence movement, the political role of national saints, post-Soviet identity crises, atheist sub-cultures, and current perceptions of citizenship take the volume into the contemporary period.

• Georgian history and culture through an interdisciplinary perspective
• New research about identities and representations
• Contributions by distinguished scholars from Georgia, Europe and the USA

✦ Table of Contents

Table of content
Acknowledgements
Notes on transliteration and spelling
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Past and future of the Stalin museum in Gori
Soviet, national, local? Representations and perceptions of Joseph Stalin as a political and cultural figure in Gori
Historical debates and the Likhni declaration as a decisive event in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict
The liminal: Colonial identity on the margins of an empire
National identity and perceptions of citizenship in Georgia over the last decade
Georgian nationalism and Soviet power. Between accommodation and revolt
Meaningless people. Atheism, subjectivity and unrepresented identities in Georgia
Iakob Gogebashvili and the natural method. Textbooks, modernity and nationalism in the late tsarist periphery
Old saints and new anxieties. Sainthood and nationhood in modern Georgia
Georgian political romanticism in the Caucasus
The women’s question in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries and Georgia’s national movement
Visits of tsars to the Caucasus as representations of empire
List of contributors
Index of persons