Georgia : a political history since independence / Stephen Jones.
Georgia : a political history since independence / Stephen Jones.
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London ; New York : I.B.Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Date
2013.
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G 2013/3065
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English
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xxii, 376 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. The best of times, the worst of times : 1985-1995. Georgia : a divided nation -- Prelude to revolution -- Populism in Georgia : the Gamsakhurdia phenomenon -- The interregnum -- pt. 2. State and society : 1995-2011. Democracy from below? -- The state -- The economy -- The myth of Georgian nat...
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Publisher
London ; New York : I.B.Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2013.
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Georgia emerged from the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991 with the promise of swift economic and democratic reform. But that promise remains unfulfilled. Economic collapse, secessionist challenges, civil war and the failure to escape the legacy of Soviet rule - culminating in the 2008 war with Russia - characterize a two-decade struggle to establi...
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Georgia : a political history since independence / Stephen Jones.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-359) and index.
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G 2013/3065
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74VKpBMOBOGA
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1845113381
9781845113384
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947.58086
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991019449229702626
