Episode 25: Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia (and Journey to Karabakh by Aka Morchiladze)

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English - October 04, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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What is freedom and captivity? Can these concepts be talked about without a proper material basis? In this episode, we use the book Journey to Karabakh by Aka Morchiladze as a basis to talk about Soviet and post-Soviet Georgia and how romanticization of suffering has changed public sensibilities and reshaped memories of the USSR.

Read Journey to Karabakh (free): here

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