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

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The Transition to Capitalism in Georgia in the 1990s

The 1990s were so destabilized. Georgia was particularly vulnerable given the amount of imports and inputs that it had versus in the Soviet period its dependency on the Soviet economy. People immediately went into terrible conditions. You can see footage, again, like I said, in Tbilisi people warming themselves on the street or not having heating,.

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