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100 years after: the countries of the South Caucasus from the declaration of independence till 2018

Published: 28 May 2018

In order to commemorate 100 years anniversary since the declaration of independence of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, the Heinrich Boell Foundation presents analytical articles that on the one hand, reflect on the main foreign and internal priorities of the first republics and on the other hand, analyze what is the impact of the short-lived experiences of statehood on the democratic political culture of the South Caucasus.

Articles

ეკლესია ქუთაისში და ის ტერიტორია, სადაც კათოლიკური სკოლა იყო

History of Other Heroes

Published: 20 February 2023

What values can the representation of minority cultures in the teaching of history promote among young people? What can be the importance of studying the history of Georgia as a place of meeting and fusion of different cultures?

By Sophie Zviadadze

A Short Report of the 2021 South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics

Published: 30 November 2021

On October 11-12, 2021, the Heinrich Boell Stiftung/Foundation (hbs) Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus Region, together with Ilia State University and the Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SOVLAB), organized the South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics to address the foundations and legacy of the first independent republics (1918-1920/21) in the South Caucasus (SC).

The First Republics (1918-1920/21) in the South Caucasus: Brief Experiences of Statehood

Published: 20 September 2021

The Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus region, together with Ilia State University and the Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SOVLAB), organizes the South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics to address the foundations and legacy of the first independent republics in the South Caucasus (SC).

უცნობი წითელარმიელი გოგონები საბჭოთა საქართველოდან, 1945 წელი, გერმანია, საბჭოთა წარსულის კვლევის ლაბორატორიის კოლექცია.

8th European History Forum: 30 years after 1989: Freedom from What? Freedom to do What?

Published: 4 July 2019

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

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Publications

Photo on the cover: Shahidlyar Khiyabany (Alley of Martyrs), Baku, 2015. Photo by Sevil Huseynova

A Tool Of Propaganda: Thirty Years Of Memory Politics In Independent Azerbaijan

Published: 10 May 2023

The article analyses the main trends of the memory politics in contemporary Azerbaijan. The author focuses on the specifics of the memorialisation of the events and heroes of the 'First Republic' (1918-1920); the events of January 1990 as the most important site of memory; the personality cult of the previous president Heydar Aliyev; and the memory politics with regard to the Karabakh conflict, including the commemoration of the Second Karabakh War (autumn 2020) unfolding in front of our eyes.

By Sevil Huseynova

Boys are playing in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Politics of Memory In Independent Georgia

Published: 24 April 2023

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked a global-historical transformation, and as a result, the Soviet system unraveled, and new nation-states emerged.

By Giorgi Maisuradze

the statue in armenia, photo: Levon Abrahamyan

Memory Politics Of The Republic Of Armenia

Published: 21 April 2023

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By Lusine Kharatyan and Gayane Shagoyan

Cover of the publication, representing different women from late soviet period

Women and History

Published: 29 December 2021

The publication was prepared as a result of a joint project Women and History implemented by the Heinrich Boell Foundation offices in Kyiv and Tbilisi.

By Olga Gnydiuk, Tamar Qeburia, Olena Styazhkina and Alla Parunova

1989: Change of Memory

Published: 4 July 2019

The following paper aims to study and analyze the process of reconsideration of the past in 1988-90 in Soviet Georgia.

By Levan Kapitanovi

Transformations of the Communist Party’s official newspaper “Soviet Armenia” in 1989

Published: 12 June 2019

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. Read in Armenian

By Parandzem Paryan

Construction of a New Discourse on Russia in the Scope of Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict in the Samizdat of 1989

Published: 11 June 2019

The purpose of the research is to analyze characteristics of the late Soviet-period Armenian samizdat and to study the representation of Armenian-Azerbaijani and Armenian-Russian relations within it.

By Eviya Hovhannisyan

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Published: 7 February 2015

South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation and Radarami present Georgian translation of Timothy Snyder's book "Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin".

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South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics

Published: 11 September 2020

hbs Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus region, together with Ilia State University and Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SOVLAB) organizes the South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics to address how the COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for researchers working in archives, museums and libraries due to limited digitization.

European History Forum

Published: 26 June 2019

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.

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