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NATO SONGULASHVILI
Tbilisi state University Of Ivane Javaxihvili
THE PROBLEMS OF METHODOLOGICAL AND OF SOURCE THE ANALIZISIS
OF THE HISTORY GEORGIAN IDENTITY THE EXAMPLE OF MEMOIRS
IN FIRST AND SECOND DECADES OF 20 TH CENTURY
The present study is focused on Georgian national community at the stage of its shaping, in
particular, in first and second decades of 20 th century, when process of consolidation was wery intensive
and the sentimemts of in-group solidarity especially salient. The said period in history of Georgia was
investigated by many scholars and results of the investigations in this field are rather impressiv, however,
the representation of Georgian national identity forging process still iacks relevant depth and insights. It
was customary for Georgian historiography of the previous period to be concerned on objective factors
while subjective factors were missed altogether.
Ethno-symbolic paradigm in interpretation of nation serves as a theoretical basis for the present
investigation and, accordingly, it elaborates on subjective factors like perceptions of past, shared values
and symbols.
In the first and second decades of 20 th century is one important and many-sauded period. There
divaded two difference period: 1900-1917 and 1918-1921.
The memoirs were meny times testify in the Georgian historiography, bat it isn , t utilize the process
of the analizisis of the Georgian identity. The memoirs of the Georgian politikal and cultural elite are very
important bazis the analizisis of the Georgian identity.
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