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Soviet Georgia: Socialism, Stalin, and the Collapse of the USSR

Revolutionary Left Radio

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The Ideological Project to Rebrand Georgia

There was this ideological project to rebrand Georgia, reconfigure what Georgia means. A very important part of that was demonization of the Soviet period. This narrative was used in order to justify free market reforms and westernization. The 90s were a brutal period in this telling because of the Soviet Union and its dysfunction - not because of capitalism itself.

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