History’s Revenge: Tsarist and Soviet Legacies in Georgia in the Twenty-First Century

Online Event | Zoom | June 16, 2026 | 15:30 PM, Tbilisi Time

History’s Revenge: Tsarist and Soviet Legacies in Georgia in the Twenty-First Century

Keynote Lecture by Prof. Ronald Grigor Suny

The Institute of Social and Cultural Research (Ilia State University) invites you to a public keynote lecture by one of the foremost historians of the Caucasus, the Russian Empire and the Soviet History.

In his keynote lecture Prof. Ronald Suny will examine the imperial effects of tsarism and Soviet “socialism” on the formation of the Georgian nation and the limits on sovereignty and modernity that living in those empires produced.

The lecture is part of the three-day International Workshop “Modernity and Sovereignties in Georgia”, co-convened by the Institute of Social and Cultural Research at Ilia State University, the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley,  and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS Regensburg).

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The event is co-funded by the Institute of Social and Cultural Research (Ilia State University) and the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia through the Fundamental Research Grant Project “Institutionalizing Modernity in Georgia: At the Juncture of Empire and Periphery.”