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Research Article |
A.A. Tokarev |
Georgia tries to part with the Soviet Union to the maximum extent at a symbolic level, has made great progress in building formal democratic institutions, but in reality it is still managed through informal procedures, to which discursive and symbolic decommunization did not affect in principle. Discursive and symbolic decommunization had no impact on the way this country is ruled.
The study is based on the data from national censuses, sociological studies, texts of official documents and, especially, the invaluable experience of the included observation of symbolic politics in all three countries.
Key words: the collapse of the USSR, the Soviet state and nation-building, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia.
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Alexey A. Tokarev – Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Global Problems of the International Research Institute MGIMO-University. 76, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454, Russia. E-mail: a.tokarev@inno.mgimo.ru.
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