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 Acknowledgements - VII Notes on transliteration and spelling- IX List of abbreviations- XI Introduction - Hubertus Jahn - 1 Past and future of the Stalin museum in Gori - Lasha Bakradze - 9 Soviet, national, local? Representations and perceptions of Joseph Stalin as a political and cultural figure in Gori - Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen - 17 Historical debates and the Likhni declaration as a decisive event in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict - Malkhaz Toria - 29 The liminal: Colonial identity on the margins of an empire - Nutsa Batiashvili - 39 National identity and perceptions of citizenship in Georgia over the last decade - Natia Mestvirishvili, Maia Mestvirishvili and Tamar Khoshtaria - 53 Georgian nationalism and Soviet power. Between accommodation and revolt - Jeremy Smith - 69 Meaningless people. Atheism, subjectivity and unrepresented identities in Georgia - Martin Demant Frederiksen - 83 Iakob Gogebashvili and the natural method. Textbooks, modernity and nationalism in the late tsarist periphery - Timothy K. Blauvelt and Anton Vacharadze - 99 Old saints and new anxieties. Sainthood and nationhood in modern Georgia - Nikoloz Aleksidze - 117 Georgian political romanticism in the Caucasus - Zaal Andronikashvili - 137 The women’s question in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and Georgia’s national movement - Khatuna Gvaradze - 151 Visits of tsars to the Caucasus as representations of empire - Hubertus Jahn - 169 List of contributors - 185 Index of persons - 191 000 Titelei_ Jahn SHK 103 1 001-008 Jahn_Jahn, SHK_103 13 009-016 Bakradze_Jahn, SHK_103 21 017-028 Gotfredsen_Jahn, SHK_103 29 029-038 Toria_Jahn, SHK_103 41 039-052 Batiashvili_Jahn, SHK_103 51 053-068 Mestvirishvili_Jahn, SHK_103 65 069-082 Smith_Jahn, SHK_103 81 083-098 Frederiksen_Jahn, SHK_103 95 099-116 Blauvelt_Jahn, SHK_103 111 117-136 Aleksidze_Jahn, SHK_103 129 137-150 Andronikashvili_Jahn, SHK_103 149 151-169 Gvaradze_Jahn, SHK_103 163 169-184 Jahn_Jahn, SHK_103 181 185-190 List of contributors _Jahn, SHK_103 197 191-194 Index of persons_Jahn, SHK_103 203

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.

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