The Cold War

Currently Playing: The Soviet Seeds of the Georgian Civil War: Abkhazia, Ossetia, and Adjara

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the conditions in the Georgian SSR that led to the Georgian Civil War after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. How did Mongolia Survive Between Stalin's USSR and Mao's China? https://youtu.be/GuMhvYfkRcY Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Novocherkassk Massacre 1962: https://youtu.be/b06Gfm2QVxY Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Kaliningrad: How Russia Got a Stronghold in Europe: https://youtu.be/QD6IWHFkYpc How the Soviets Won the Early Space Race: https://youtu.be/skyrA0l9erI Soviet Television and Radio: https://youtu.be/YcBKRMJI7Ck Top-5 Myths About the Soviet Union: https://youtu.be/eMBh5zbN3K4 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #Georgia #Abkhazia #Adjara #Ossetia #USSR #SovietUnion *Sources* Anastasia Shesterinina, Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Cornell University Press, 2021) George Hewitt, The Abkhazians: A Handbook (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999) https://abkhazworld.com/aw/history/499-stalin-beria-terror-in-abkhazia-1936-53-by-stephen-shenfield Terry Martin, Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Cornell University Press, 2001) Stylianos Sotiriou, “The Irreversibility of History: The Conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol.66, No.3 (2017) Nevzat Torun and  Karadeniz Arastirmalari, “Soviet Nationality Policy: Impact on Ethnic Conflict in Abkhazia and South Ossetia,” Journal of Black Sea Studies, Vol.70 (2021) https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/south-ossetias-unwanted-independence/ Anton Bebler (ed.), “Frozen conflicts" in Europe (Berlag Barbara Budrich, 2015) Eric Lee, The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 (ZED Books, 2017)