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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
IN TODAY'S DISCUSSIONS on ethno-political conflicts, Abkhazia and South Ossetia are as a rule considered together. Meanwhile, this approach is fraught with too strong a simplification. After all, the two republics, which have broken away from Georgia, have had very different paths to self-determination.
In the Soviet period, Abkhazia was much more poorly integrated into the social, political and cultural space of the Georgian SSR, compared with South Ossetia. Beginning in 1931, the Abkhaz ASSR from time to time witnessed calls for secession from Georgia and the creation of either a separate Union Republic, or for entry into the RSFSR.
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