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Squeezed between Europe and Asia Georgia is a country with long and dramatic history going back to 6 C BC. Almost two centuries of Russian domination from1801-1991 with the short period of independence in 1918-1921, made this country almost unknown to the West.

 

However, with her independence fully restored by the end of the last century this nation is getting strategic importance as a bridge between East Mediterranean and Central Asian regions.

 

As of today, interests of many powers both world and region ones, are clashing in Georgia testing her ability to survive and build a prosperous democratic society despite a number of problems among them Kremlin-orchestrated conflicts in Abkhazia and Shida-Kartli (South Ossetia).

 

 

 

 

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ORGANIZED CRIME IN GEORGIA & IN HER SEPARATIST ENCLAVES

 

 

 

 

A Comprehensive Georgian-English and English-Georgian Dictionary (Electronic version)

 

  

 

USEFUL LINKS:               

 

Drapeau animé de Géorgie par Pascal Gross 

Georgian Government, Parties & Media          

http://www.politicalresources.net/georgia.htm

 

 

ABKHAZIA

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL

& ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

 

   

  

   Св. Нино Georgian Church, Icons & Spiritual Music (Tips in English)

 

   Listen to modern Georgian music       

 

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

 

 

Bremmer, Jan, & Taras, Ray,            New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations,

Cambridge University Press, 1997

 

Suny, Ronald Grigor,              The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union,    

                                                Stanford University Press, 1993

 

                                                Transcaucasia, Nationalism & Social Change:

Essays in the History of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan

The University of Michigan Press, 1999

 

The Black Book of Communism                    Harward University Press       2000

 

 

Villari, Luigi,                             Fire and Sword in the Caucasus

                                                London, T. F. Unwin, 1906

 

 

 

SUGGESTED ADDITIONAL READING:

 

Allen, W.E.D.: A History of the Georgian People [1932]

 

Curtis, G.E.: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia: Country Studies. [1995]

 

Daskhuranci, M.: A History of the Caucasian Albanians. [1961]

 

Denikin, A.: The Russian Turmoil. [1924]

 

Iosseliani, P.: The Concise History of Georgian Church. [1883]

 

Kazemzadeh, F.: The Struggle for Transcaucasia: 1917-1921. [1951]

 

Lang, D.M.: The Last Days of the Georgian Monarchy, 1658-1832. [1957]

 

     : A Modern History of Georgia. [1962]

 

 

 

 

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