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Mingrelian question: institutional resources and the limits of Soviet nationality policy / Blauvelt, Timothy

Blauvelt, Timothy	Journal Article
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2014.

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Based on primary source materials from the Georgian Party archive and periodical press, this article examines the conflict between central and local elites in the Soviet Republic of Georgia over whether or not to grant linguistic and territorial rights to residents of one of its regions. The case demonstrates how the promises and aspirations of Soviet nationality policy were actually negotiated and interpreted on the local level in the early years of Soviet power, and how actors attempted to make use of nationality policy in order to mobilise the institutional resources available to them.

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Central Europe ; Eastern Europe ; Political conflict ; International Order ; Georgia ; Post-Soviet Space ;
Political Engagement ; Territorial Rights ; Soviet Power ; International Actor ; Central and Eastern Europe - CEE ; Soviet Nationality Policy ;
Western Actor ; Central Elite ; Soviet Union

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Status Shift and Ethnic Mobilisation in the March 1956 Events i / Blauvelt, Timothy

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2009.

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The large-scale demonstrations that took place in Georgia in early March 1956 following Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress were the first significant expressions of public protest and civil disobedience in the Soviet Union for decades, and they also bore a clearly nationalistic character. Based primarily on materials from the Georgian KGB and Party archives and interviews with former Party officials and participants of the events, this article examines potential interpretations of these events derived from elite incorporation and ethnic mobilisation theories.

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Georgia ; Ethnic Mobilisation ; Status Shift ; March 1956 Events

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Sticking Together? Georgia’s “Beached” Armenians Between Mobilization and Acculturation / Berglund, Christofer; Dragojevic, Marko; Blauvelt, Timothy

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As the USSR fell apart and independent countries took its place, minorities across Eurasia found themselves stranded in nationalizing states. This article focuses on one of these “beached diasporas”: Georgia’s Armenians. Through a mixed-methods approach, consisting of interviews with activists and a sociolinguistic experiment administered to adolescents (N = 529), we uncover differences among Armenians in their reactions to Georgia’s nationalization policies. Armenians from the borderland of Javakheti mobilized in defence of the in-group but their co-ethnics from the capital of Tbilisi opted for acculturation. These intragroup differences demonstrate that members of the same ethnic group can react to the same nationalization policies along disparate lines, thus adding nuance to the literature on beached diasporas in the post-Soviet space.

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Armenia ; Georgia ; Beached ; Mobilization and Acculturation

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