Old saints and new anxieties. Sainthood and nationhood in modern Georgia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of content V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Notes on transliteration and spelling IX
5. List of abbreviations XI
6. Introduction 1
7. Past and future of the Stalin museum in Gori 9
8. Soviet, national, local? Representations and perceptions of Joseph Stalin as a political and cultural figure in Gori 17
9. Historical debates and the Likhni declaration as a decisive event in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict 29
10. The liminal: Colonial identity on the margins of an empire 39
11. National identity and perceptions of citizenship in Georgia over the last decade 53
12. Georgian nationalism and Soviet power. Between accommodation and revolt 69
13. Meaningless people. Atheism, subjectivity and unrepresented identities in Georgia 83
14. Iakob Gogebashvili and the natural method. Textbooks, modernity and nationalism in the late tsarist periphery 99
15. Old saints and new anxieties. Sainthood and nationhood in modern Georgia 117
16. Georgian political romanticism in the Caucasus 137
17. The women’s question in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries and Georgia’s national movement 151
18. Visits of tsars to the Caucasus as representations of empire 169
19. List of contributors 185
20. Index of persons 191