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Georgia After Communist Rule
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Old salt baths and Narikala Fortress, Tbilisi
Courtesy Michael W. Serafin
Old Tbilisi seen from Mtkvari (Kura) River
Courtesy Monica O'Keefe, United States Information
Agency
In Georgia Gorbachev's simultaneous policies of
glasnost and continued control energized the forces of
nationalism, which pushed the republic out of the central state
before the Soviet Union fell apart. The first years of
independence were marked by struggle among Georgians for control
of the government and by conflict with ethnic minorities seeking
to escape the control of Tbilisi.
Data as of March 1994
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