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.)

Media articles and references

• "Soviets Release Penitent Dissident" - Washington Post, June 30, 1979
• "New Leaders Show Their Old Habits; Georgia, Some Other Soviet Republics Cling to Authoritarian Ways" - Washington Post, Sept 18, 1991
• "Russki Curier", Paris, September, 1991 (In Russian).
• Aila Niinimaa-Keppo. "Shevardnadzen valhe" ("The Lie of Shevardnadze"), Helsinki, 1992 (In Finnish).
• Johan Michael Ginther, "About the Putch in Georgia" - Der Presse Spiegel (Germany), No 14, 1992 (in German).
• "Repression Follows Putsch in Georgia!" - "Human Rights Worldwide", Frankfurt/M., No 2 (Vol. 2), 1992.
• "Purges, tortures, arson, murders..." - Iltalehti (Finland), April 2, 1992 (in Finnish).
• "Entinen Neuvostoliito". Edited by Antero Leitzinger. Publishing House "Painosampo", Helsinki, 1992, pp. 114-115 (In Finnish). ISBN 952-9752-00-8.
• "Attempted Coup Blitzed in Georgia; Two Killed" - Chicago Sun-Times, June 25, 1992.
• "Moskovskie Novosti" ("The Moscow News"), December 15, 1992.
• "Iberia-Spektri", Tbilisi, December 15-21, 1992 (In Georgian).
• J. "Soviet Analyst". Vol. 21, No: 9-10, London, 1993, pp. 15-31.
• Otto von Habsburg.- ABC (Spain). November 24, 1993.
• Robert W. Lee. "Dubious Reforms in Former USSR".- The New American, Vol. 9, No 2, 1993.
• "Gushagi" (Journal of Georgian political emigres in Georgian and English), Paris, No 1/31, 1994. ISSN 0763-7247.
• Mark Almond. "The West Underwrites Russian Imperialism" - The Wall Street Journal, European Edition, February 7, 1994.
• "Schwer verletzte Menschenrechte in Georgien" - Neue Zürcher Zeitung. August 19, 1994.
• "Intrigue Marks Alleged Death Of Georgia's Deposed Leader" - Wall Street Journal. Jan 6, 1994
• "Georgians dispute reports of rebel leader's suicide" - The Guardian (UK). Jan 6, 1994
• "Ousted Georgia Leader a Suicide, His Wife Says" - Los Angeles Times. Jan 6, 1994
• "Eyewitness: Gamsakhurdia's body tells of bitter end" - The Guardian (UK). Feb 18, 1994.
• Konstantin Gamsachurdia: "Swiad Gamsachurdia: Dissident - Präsident - Märtyrer", Perseus-Verlag, Basel, 1995 (in German), 150 pp. ISBN 3-907564-19-7.
• Robert W. Lee. "The "Former" Soviet Bloc." - The New American, Vol. 11, No 19, 1995.
• "CAUCASUS and unholy alliance." Edited by Antero Leitzinger. ISBN 952-9752-16-4. Publishing House "Kirja-Leitzinger" (Leitzinger Books), Vantaa (Finland), 1997, 348 pp.
• "GEORGIE - 1997" (Report of the Netherlands Helsinki Union/NHU), s-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands), 1997, 64 pp. (In Dutch).
• "Insider Report" - The New American, Vol. 13, No 4, 1997.
• Levan Urushadze. "The role of Russia in the Ethnic Conflicts in the Caucasus."- CAUCASUS: War and Peace. Edited by Mehmet Tutuncu, Haarlem (The Netherlands), 1998, 224 pp. ISBN 90-9011125-5.
• "Insider Report" - The New American, Vol. 15, No 20, 1999.
• "Gushagi", Paris, No 2/32, 1999. ISSN 0763-7247.
• Bas van der Plas. "GEORGIE: Traditie en tragedie in de Kaukasus." Publishing House "Papieren Tijger", Nijmegen (The Netherlands), 2000 (in Dutch), 114 pp. ISBN 90-6728-114-X.
• Levan Urushadze. "About the history of Russian policy in the Caucasus."- IACERHRG's Yearbook - 2000, Tbilisi, 2001, pp. 64-73 (In English).