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Georgian nationalism were unsuccessful and even for the end of the 20th
century, as it seems is not still enough near to its civil form. The Qualita-
tively new and the most important stage for the Georgian nationalism was
the Rose Revolution in 2003, when nationalism as a political idea began
to grow up. Processes, which began after this event, are still going.
Political line of the Georgian nationalism is examined by the Russia
– Georgia war in 2008, after what completely diff erent agenda has been
formed. If Russia used to play the role of a neutral party formally, this
time its overt military intervention in the sovereign territory of Georgia
meant to enter into an open and direct confrontation.
However, in our opinion only now Georgia was given the chance to
fi nish its establishing as a state–nation. Western political values and shar-
ing of them on the civic level, its connection with the faith of our future,
gave us the chance to solve and clarify our problems with peace of mind.
Conclusion
As we have already mentioned, there are numerous literature on
confl ict issue: books and articles are still written, conferences and pub-
lic meetings are conducted, and confl icts are discussed in everyday life.
Nowadays the most important intellectual challenge is understanding of
the basis of the confrontation. Clarifi cation of the essence of the confl ict
is signifi cantly related to the research of Georgian nationalism issues. As
we have seen, its perception is entirely linked to historical challenges.
Such research requires a careful and detail study of the issue; therefore
the present article doesn’t complete the deal with the theme. On the con-
trary, it may cause additional questions and interest, which requires to be
newly researched more and more materials.
However, what we can say from our standpoint? It is obvious that
since the nineteenth century Russia has played a negative role in the re-
lation of ethnic groups, living in Georgia. However, belief of Georgian
society that the problem is externally generated and it has only a political
character is not entirely true. Vakhushti Bagrationi’s Description of the
Georgian Kingdom, also the revived characters through the literature and
verbal icons among the people, shows that at least, since the last decades
of the eighteenth century, when the postulates of cultural movement be-
comes as an ideas of nationalism, Georgian narrative due to some kind of
ethno-cultural reasons absorbs negative messages towards Ossetian and
Abkhazian population. Ethno-cultural authentifi cation, which primarily
aimed to highlight the unity of Georgians, continued in the 19th century,
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