European History Forum: 30 Years after 1989 My research focused on the protest rallies that took place on April 9, 1989. Today in Georgia, on the 30th anniversary of the 9th of April, many associate this day with the restoration of Georgia’s independence. In fact, it is undeniable that the sequence of the events that transpired that day, coupled with all the other circumstances unfolding in 1989, created the preconditions for the restoration of Georgia’s independence. By Katie Sartania
1989: Protest Rallies and their Influence on Georgian History The present paper provides an overview of developments preceding the protest rallies of 9 April 1989 in chronological order and their symbolic characteristics. Download
1989: Change of Memory The following paper aims to study and analyze the process of reconsideration of the past in 1988-90 in Soviet Georgia. pdf
8th European History Forum: 30 years after 1989: Freedom from What? Freedom to do What? In 1989, a wave of revolutions swept the Eastern Bloc in Europe. The reform movement that ended communism in East Central Europe began in Poland. Solidarity, an anti-Communist trade union and social movement, had forced Poland’s Communist government to recognize it in the 1980s through a wave of strikes that gained international attention. By Eviya Hovhannisyan
European History Forum Every year in Berlin, the Heinrich Boell Foundation organizes the European History Forum, which aims at offering historians, politicians, social scientists and civil society actors from Eastern, Central and Western Europe a space to critically think and reflect on Europe’s recent history. The 8th European History Forum was dedicated to the year of 1989.
Transformations of the Communist Party’s official newspaper “Soviet Armenia” in 1989 This paper discusses the structural and ideological transformations of the Communist party’s official newspaper Soviet Armenia and follows a case-study approach based on the oral history interview. By Parandzem Paryan
Construction of a New Discourse on Russia in the Scope of Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict in the Samizdat Read in Armenian By Eviya Hovhannisyan
From Revolutionary Struggle to Social Emancipation On 5 March 1917, at 11 o’clock in the morning, many members of the Caucasian workers’ movement and thousands of ordinary citizens gathered in Nadzaladevi’s Theatre Square. The revolutionaries had assembled in order to receive the latest reports of the events then unfolding in St Petersburg. The people were interested in hearing whether the February Revolution had achieved its goal. By Levan Lortkipanidze
From International Revolution to a National State – The Case of Georgian Social Democracy (1917-1921) In the twilight years of the 19th century, the Georgian people were faced with a number of challenges. Although the abolition of feudalism had liberated the peasantry, they had not been given land and their afflicted state remained the same. A number of freed peasants headed for the cities and filled the ranks of the proletariat, encountering “brute capitalism” in a place where basic labour rights were not regulated. By Beka Kobakhidze
