Zviad Gamsakhurdia

Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia (Georgian: ????? ???????????? ?? ???????????) (March 31, 1939 - December 31, 1993) was a dissident, scientist and writer, who became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. (Particularly in Soviet-era sources, his patronymic is sometimes given as Konstantinovich in the Russian style.)

Links and literature

• President Zviad Gamsakhurdia's Memorial Page
• Reports of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR-IGFM)
• Reports of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group (BHHRG)
• Georgian Media in the 90s: a Step To Liberty
• Country Studies: Georgia - U.S. Library of Congress
• SHAVLEGO
• http://www.diacritica.com/sobaka/2002/gamsakhurdia.html "The Lion in Winter - My Friend Zviad Gamsakhurdia", Todor Todorev, May 2002
• Zviad Gamsakhurdia. "Open Letter to E. Shevardnadze"
• Zviad Gamsakhurdia. "The Nomenklatura Revanche in Georgia"
• "The Transcaucasian Republics and the Coup", Elizabeth Fuller, August 1991