ქართული ნაციონალიზმის წარმოშობა
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2011
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მერიდიანი
Abstract
Social theorists distinguish two principal types of nations: nations being
direct products of modernization processes and nations emerged as results of
nationalisms. The Georgian nation belongs to the later type. Accordingly, representation
of the history of Georgian nationalism is a key task of Georgian
historiography. The Soviet historians treating nationalism as a false bourgeois
ideology placed it beyond the academic interests. It is why during the long
period (until very recently) the phenomenon of Georgian nationalism was
neglected issue. Hence today the study of the problem lacks necessary insights.
The goal of the present investigation is to fill up (of course, only
partially) the existed gap and provide up-to-date discourse on the history of
Georgian nationalism. In particular, we attempt to provide alternative view on
the time of Georgian nationalism’s emergence: we argue that the early
nineteenth century was a date of Georgian nationalism’s origin instead of
generally accepted late nineteenth century. We define principle sources and
stages of development of Georgian nationalism. The research shows that the
matrix of Georgian nationalism despite of its west European sources was not
always well-matched with paradigmatic models.
We share opinion according to which nationalism is linked with the
Enlightenment project and assert that conceptualization of the notion of “people
“may serve as a main indicator of nationalist ideology arising. With this
assertion in mind we analyze the empirical data, namely, the anti-Russian
uprisings of Georgian peasantry and nobility in the first two decades of the
nineteenth century and also conspiracy of Georgian nobility of 1832. We treat
these movements as nationalist ones considering them as original facts in the
history of Georgian nationalism. We think that these movements were
expressions of Georgian premature political nationalism, which in the late
nineteenth century had been transformed into mature cultural nationalism.
In this regard we compare the paradigms of interrelations between
political and cultural nationalisms proposed by M. Hroch on the one hand, and
J. Hutchinson and A. D. Smith, on the other hand. The obtained material makes
us to suppose that Georgian case study can be used for elaboration of these
theoretical patterns.
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https://geohistory.humanities.tsu.ge/ge/procedings/83-shromebi/140-shromebi-33.html
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ნაციონალიზმი, იდენტობა, აჯანყებები
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის საქართველოს ისტორიის ინსტიტუტის შრომები, III, თბილისი, 2011, გვ. 259-278 / Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Institute of Georgian History Proceedings, III, Tbilisi, 2011, pp. 259-278