Beschreibung:
This book explores events in Georgia in the years following Stalin's death in March 1953, especially the demonstrations of March 1956 and their brutal suppression, in order to illuminate the tensions in Georgia between veneration of the memory of Stalin, a Georgian, together with the associated respect for the Soviet system that he had created, and growing nationalism.
Foreword 1 . Introduction 2. Kremlin - Tbilisi. Purges, control and Georgian nationalism in the first half of the 1950s 3. A History of the March 1956 Events in Georgia, based on Oral History Interviews and Archival Documents 4. "What is the Cult of Personality and what has it to do With Stalin?": The Role of Ideology, Youth and the Komsomol in the March Events 5. Nationalism after the March 1956 Events and the Origins of the National-Independence Movement in Georgia 6. "A Kind of Silent Protest"? Deciphering Georgia's 1956 7. Resistance, Discourse and Nationalism in the March 1956 Events in Georgia 8. Georgian-Abkhaz Relations in the Post-Stalinist Era 9. Conclusion: Georgian Nationalism after 1956 10. Appendix: Documents from the Georgian Archives