Academic Scientific JournalsA Political Discourse on Nation and Nation-Buildng in a Post-Communist State: The Case of Georgia Under Zviad Gamsakhurdia
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Nation-Building, Nationalising State, Ethnic Democracy, Zviad GamsakhurdiaAbstract
The article considers Zviad Gamsakhurdia’s discourse on nationality and nation-building in post-soviet Georgia during the period October 1990 to 6th January 1992. Methodologically, the article is based on the methods of discourse analysis and trace observation. The concepts of Rogers Brubaker’s “nationalising state” and Sammy Smooha’s ‘ethnic democracy” are used as the theoretical framework. The article concludes that a hybrid model of a nation was used by Zviad Gamsakhurdia instead of a pure ethnicity model widespread in relevant literature.
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