Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა (Georgian) Грузинская Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian) Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
← 1921–1991 →
Flag Coat of arms
Capital	Tbilisi
Official language	Georgian, Russian, Abkhaz (in the Abkhazian ASSR) and Ossetic (in the South Ossetian AO)
Established In the Soviet Union:  - Since  - Until	February 25, 1921 December 30, 1922 December 26, 1991
Area  - Total  - Water (%)	Ranked 10th in the USSR 69,700 km² negligible
Population  - Total   - Density	Ranked 9th in the USSR 5,337,600 (1989) 62.2/km²
Time zone	UTC + 3
Anthem	Anthem of Georgian SSR
Medals	Order of Lenin

The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian: საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა sakartvelos sabch'ota socialist'uri resp'ublik'a; Russian: Грузинская Советская Социалистическая Республика Gruzinskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), also known as the Georgian SSR for short, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union.

History

Main article: History of the Georgian SSR

On November 28, 1917, after the October Revolution in Russia, there was established aTranscaucasian Commissariat headed by Mensheviks in Tbilisi.

Order of the Red Banner of Georgian SSR, 1923.

The Socialist Soviet Republic of Georgia was established on February 25, 1921. On March 2 of the following year the first constitution of Soviet Georgia was accepted.

From March 12, 1922 to December 5, 1936 it was part of the Transcaucasian SFSR together with the Armenian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR. In 1936, the TSFSR was dissolved. During this period the province was led by Lavrentiy Beria, first secretary of the Georgian Central Committee of the Georgian Communist Party^[1]

Under Khrushchev, the government was decentralized and the Georgian Communist Party rose in power. Alongside it, a black market economy and corruption grew. Eduard Shevardnadze worked for years to fight this corruption from the mid 1960s until 1985, when he was appointed Soviet Foreign Minister.

On October 28, 1990, democratic parliamentary elections were held, and on November 15 the nation was renamed the "Republic of Georgia." It declared independence on April 9, 1991, under Zviad Gamsakhurdia. However, this was unrecognized by the Soviet government and Georgia was in the USSR until its collapse in December 1991.

References

External links

• Georgia, land of the Golden Fleece, reveals its riches a propaganda pamphlet about the GSSR from the 1960s.

Map of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922

Map of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1957-1991

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