Identities and Representations in Georgia from the 19th Century to the Present (Schriften Des Historischen Kollegs)

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 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

Die "Schriften des Historischen Kollegs" werden herausgegeben vom jeweiligen Vorsitzenden des Kuratoriums des Historischen Kollegs: bis 2011 durch Lothar Gall, von 2012 bis 2017 durch Andreas Wirsching, von 2017 bis 2020 durch Martin Schulze Wessel, seit Oktober 2020 durch Hartmut Leppin in Verbindung mit Florian Albert, Birgit Emich, Thomas O. Höllmann, Hartmut Leppin, Susanne Lepsius, Diana Mishkova, Bernhard Löffler, Frank Rexroth, Willibald Steinmetz und Gerrit Walther.

Zum Historischen Kolleg: http://www.historischeskolleg.de/