Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic 404444 226001831 2008-07-16T11:47:08Z VolkovBot 3035831 robot Adding: [[ja:グルジア・ソビエト社会主義共和国]] {{unreferenced|date=January 2008}} <!--This article is in US English--> {{Infobox SSR | name = Georgian SSR | rus-name = Грузинская Советская Социалистическая Республика | loc-name = საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა | full-name = Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic | year_start = 1936 | year_end = 1991 | p1 = Transcaucasian SFSR | flag_p1 = Flag of Transcaucasian SFSR.svg | s1 = Georgia (country) | flag_s1 = Flag of Georgia (1990-2004).svg | flag = Flag of Georgian SSR.svg | arms = Coat of arms of Georgian SSR.png | map = SovietUnionGeorgia.png | capital = [[Tbilisi]] | language = [[Georgian language|Georgian]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Abkhaz language|Abkhaz]] (in the [[Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Abkhazian ASSR]]) and [[Ossetic language|Ossetic]] (in the [[South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast|South Ossetian AO]]) | Lang-ISO = ka | established = [[February 25]] [[1921]] | ussr-start = [[December 30]] [[1922]] | ussr-end = [[September]] [[1991]] | area-rank = 10th | area = 69,700 | water = negligible | pop-rank = 9th | pop = 4,337,600 (1989) | density = 128.2 | time-zone = + 3 | anthem = [[Anthem of Georgian SSR]] | medals = [[Image:Leninorder.jpg|26px]] [[Order of Lenin]] }} The '''Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic''' ({{lang-ka|საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა}} ''Sak'art'velos Sabčota Soc'ialisturi Respublika''; {{lang-ru|Грузинская Советская Социалистическая Республика}} ''Gruzinskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika''), also known as the '''Georgian SSR''' for short, was one of the [[Republics of the Soviet Union|republics]] that made up the former [[Soviet Union]]. Established on [[February 25]] [[1921]], as the Georgian SSR. From [[March 12]] [[1922]] to [[December 5]] [[1936]] it was part of the [[Transcaucasian SFSR]] together with the [[Armenian SSR]] and the [[Azerbaijan SSR]]. In 1936, the TSFSR was dissolved. Under [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]'s rule, many Georgians were executed. During this period the province was led by [[Lavrenti Beria]], first secretary of the [[Georgian Central Committee]] of the [[Georgian Communist Party]]<ref>.Geronti Kikodze (1954) Notes of a Contemporary, first published in 1989, Mnatobi, Issue 1, Tbilisi, Georgia.</ref> Under [[Nikita Khrushchev|Khrushchev]], the government was decentralized and the Georgian Communist Party rose in power. Alongside it, a black market economy and corruption grew. [[Eduard Shevardnadze]] worked for years to fight this corruption from the mid 1960s until 1985, when he was appointed Soviet Foreign Minister. On [[October 28]] [[1990]], democratic parliamentary elections were held, and on [[November 15]] the nation was renamed the "[[Republic of Georgia]]." It declared independence on [[April 9]], [[1991]], under nationalist leader [[Zviad Gamsakhurdia]]. However, this was unrecognized by the Soviet government until September 1991. <references/> == See also == {{History of Georgia}} *[[History of Georgia (country)#Georgia under the Soviet Union.2C 1921 - 1990|History of the Georgian SSR]] {{Soviet Republics}} {{Georgia-stub}} {{Soviet-stub}} [[Category:Soviet Republics]] [[Category:History of Georgia (country)]] [[Category:History of Soviet Georgia]] [[az:Gürcüstan Sovet Sosialist Respublikası]] [[br:RSS Jorjia]] [[bg:Грузинска съветска социалистическа република]] [[ca:República Socialista Soviètica de Geòrgia]] [[cs:Gruzínská sovětská socialistická republika]] [[de:Georgische SSR]] [[et:Gruusia NSV]] [[es:República Socialista Soviética de Georgia]] [[fr:République socialiste soviétique de Géorgie]] [[gv:Pobblaght Hoveidjagh Hoshiallagh ny Shorshey]] [[gl:República Socialista Soviética de Xeorxia]] [[ko:그루지야 소비에트 사회주의 공화국]] [[id:RSS Georgia]] [[it:RSS Georgiana]] [[he:הרפובליקה הסובייטית הסוציאליסטית של גאורגיה]] [[ka:საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა]] [[lt:Gruzijos TSR]] [[mk:Грузиска ССР]] [[nl:Georgische Socialistische Sovjetrepubliek]] [[ja:グルジア・ソビエト社会主義共和国]] [[pl:Gruzińska Socjalistyczna Republika Radziecka]] [[pt:República Socialista Soviética da Geórgia]] [[ro:Republica Sovietică Socialistă Georgiană]] [[ru:Грузинская Советская Социалистическая Республика]] [[fi:Georgian sosialistinen neuvostotasavalta]] [[sv:Georgiska SSR]] [[tr:Gürcistan Sovyet Sosyalist Cumhuriyeti]] [[zh:格鲁吉亚苏维埃社会主义共和国]]