The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR) as a "Georgian" responsibility

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR) as a "Georgian" responsibility

Original language description

This article looks at the historical perspectives and positions of key Georgian political !gures - mostly leading Social Democrats such as Noe Zhordania and Akaki Chkhenkeli, as well as National Democrats such as Niko Nikoladze - on the making and unmaking of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR) by analyzing their re&quot;ections on the most heated political concepts of the !rst two decades of the twentieth century: nationality, nationalism, the nation-state, federation, economic development, and socialism in the Georgian, Transcaucasian and imperial contexts, given the rapidly shifting geopolitics of the region triggered by the onset of the Great War and aggravated by the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917. The article demonstrates that already having conceptualized the socio- economic and cultural needs of the nation as developing outside of the framework of the nation-state, Zhordania and Chkhenkeli viewed these instead within a regional federative context under a revolutionarily transformed imperial centre, while assuming that the Social Democrats would hold the commanding political position in Georgia. This prepared them to take responsibility for establishing de facto federative political institutions for Transcaucasia. That responsibility facilitated the making and unmaking of the short-lived, independent TDFR.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic of 1918: Federal Aspirations, Geopolitics and National Projects

ISBN

978-0-367-74224-9

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

31-44

Number of pages of the book

140

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon

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