Georgianization
English
Etymology
Georgianize + -ation
Noun
Georgianization (uncountable)
- the act or process of Georgianizing
- year unknown, Maxim Tabachnik, Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood, Springer (→ISBN), page 245:
- Abkhazian historians explain that Georgian authorities justified Georgianization to Moscow by the communist party's goal of eventual assimilation of everyone into the Soviet people with Abkhaz assimilation a part of the process
- 1997, Institutions, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: International Experience and Its Implications for the Caucasus, May 2-3, 1997 : Conference Report
- Georgianization policies are emphasized in this narrative, especially those from 1937-53.
- 1998, Beverly Crawford, Ronnie D. Lipschutz, The Myth of "ethnic Conflict": Politics, Economics, and "cultural" Violence, University of California International &
- The success of Georgianization is probably best illustrated by the fact that virtually all Abkhazes living in Ajaria know Georgian, with one-fifth even claiming it as their mother tongue, compared to an astonishingly low 1.4 percent among their compatriots in Abkhazia
- year unknown, Maxim Tabachnik, Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood, Springer (→ISBN), page 245: