ნაციონალური კონსოლიდაციის პროცესები რუსეთის იმპერიასა და საბჭოთა კავშირში: 1861-1930

The goal of this research is to determine the principals of the general processes of national consolidation in the Russian Empire and during the first decade of the Soviet power, as well as analysis of the policies and approaches implemented (and directed) towards different ethnoses in Russian Empire and Soviet Union. This subject is relevant, since it concerns Georgia and the most recent history of the region, and the impact of the processes (depicted and) analyzed in this piece is still significant in the political and socio-cultural scenes of different (post-Soviet-Union) states. It is important to put specific events and processes in a broader theoretical context and to evaluate them with this perspective. In addition, this work includes census data from 1897 as well as from 1926 and it is analyzed entirely in the context of national consolidation. This work is rendered even more significant by the lack of research and monographs on subject in Georgian historiography. The subject is vast and this piece clearly showcases the need for further research.