Geneze etnopolitických konfliktů v jižní Osetii a Abcházii (90. léta)

• Authors: Souleimanov E.

Title variants

EN

GENESIS OF ETHNO-POLITICAL CONFLICTS IN SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA (THE 1990'S)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

With regard to a 'cold war', which governed Russian-Georgian relations, this study analyses initial phases of ethno-political conflicts between Tbilisi and the separatist republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which received increasing support from Moscow provoked by the acute Russian-Georgian conflict. The essay opens with an analysis of the interior political development in Georgia in the late 80's. It shows that many events of the late Soviet period, which occurred between the Soviet headquarters and the Georgian periphery, significantly affected the character of Georgian policy towards separatist regions. Next, the essay analyses the outset of two ethno-political conflicts, which occurred within the brief existence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1919-1921). Attention is paid to antagonistic ethno-historiographic narratives of the Georgians, South Ossetians and Abkhazians, which formed an ideological foundation for separatists and the Georgian party. The article then concentrates on the escalation of conflicts, i.e. when sporadic exchanges of fire between local armed squads erupted into active conventional fighting (from the late 80's to the early 90's). Special attention is paid to Moscow's piece initiatives between 1992 and 1994.

Keywords

EN

ETHNIC CONFLICTS; GEORGIA; MINORITY POLICY

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 94
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 419-440
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Souleimanov E.

• E. Souleimanov, Katedra politologickych studii, Fakulta socialnich ved UK, U Krize 8, 158 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA05119731