Status Shift and Ethnic Mobilisation in the March 1956 Events in Georgia

2009/05/14 by Timothy K. Blauvelt · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Character (mathematics) #Civil disobedience #Criticism #Eastern European Communism and Reforms #Elite #Ethnic group #Georgian #Law #Political Conflict and Governance #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Public administration #Sociology #Soviet and Russian History

paper · doi:10.1080/09668130902826246

openalex publication_date 2009/05/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

The large-scale demonstrations that took place in Georgia in early March 1956 following Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress were the first significant expressions of public protest and civil disobedience in the Soviet Union for decades, and they also bore a clearly nationalistic character. Based primarily on materials from the Georgian KGB and Party archives and interviews with former Party officials and participants of the events, this article examines potential interpretations of these events derived from elite incorporation and ethnic mobilisation theories.

Citations

• Soviet Federalism and Ethnic Mobilization
• The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism

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• March 9 [wikipedia]

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