Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Timothy K. Blauvelt is Associate Professor of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Jeremy Smith is Professor of Russian History and Politics at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland.

Reviews

"This book is an important contribution to our understanding of Soviet life in the periphery of the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s. It is pioneering archival research, and reveals the complexity of national minority politics in the USSR."Stephen Jones, Mount Holyoke College, Slavic Review