FOUNDED: A BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY AND CULTURE FROM GEORGIA (CAUCASUS)

The Making of the Georgian Nation (Hardcover)
by Ronald Grigor Suny
Hardcover: 418 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press; 2nd edition (December 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN: 0253355796

Ronald Suny presents the story of how the Georgia Republic became an independent nation. I worked for two years in Georgia and this book helped me understand Georgians, their pride in their culture and long history and their antipathy to Russia.
Suny writes well --the book reads like a novel even though it is carefully researched.

The geography, economy, culture, and history of the region are explored in Glenn E. Curtis (ed.), Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Country Studies (1995). Roger Rosen, The Georgian Republic (1992), is essentially a guidebook, but it provides important information on the country, its traditions, and its people. Another travel book, focusing on immediate encounters with the people of present-day Georgia, is Mary Russell, Please Don't Call It Soviet Georgia: A Journey Through a Troubled Paradise (1991). David Braund, Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, 550 BC–AD 562 (1994), chronicles the history of ancient Colchis, Iberia, and Lazica, based on current Russian and Georgian scholarship. David Marshall Lang, The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy, 1658–1832 (1957), is a detailed study of the period in question. W.E.D. Allen, A History of the Georgian People from the Beginning Down to the Russian Conquest in the Nineteenth Century (1932, reprinted 1971), is a major study of the state and national formation, insightfully keeping in perspective the contemporary history of neighbouring states. David Marshall Lang, A Modern History of Soviet Georgia (1962, reprinted 1975), surveys the 19th century and also treats fully the impact of Russian and European ways on the Caucasian peoples. Ronald Grigor Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation (1988), traces national formation and deals extensively with Georgia in the Soviet period.