History of Georgia

:This article is about the history of the country Georgia. For the history of the U.S. state of Georgia, see History of Georgia (U.S. state).

Georgia under the Russian Empire, 1801 - 1918

In 1801, the Russian Tsar Alexander I abolished the Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and exiled its royal family. It was fully absorbed into the Russian Empire by 1804, following which an intense program of russification was undertaken to replace the Georgian social and cultural system with a Russian version. The Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church was also abolished.

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1801 - Alexander I - 1804 - Russification - Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church

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Georgian dissatisfaction with Tsarist autocracy and Armenian economic domination led to the development of a national liberation movement in the second half of the 19th century. A large-scale peasant revolt occurred in 1905 which led to political reforms that eased the tensions for a period. During this time, the Marxist Social Democratic Party became the dominant political movement in Georgia, occupying all the Georgian seats in the Russian State Duma established after 1905. Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili (aka Joseph Stalin), a Georgian Bolshevik, became a leader of the revolutionary (and anti-Menshevik) movement in Georgia.

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19th century - 1905 - Social Democratic Party - State Duma - Joseph Stalin - Bolshevik - Menshevik

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