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დოქტორანტის სახელი და გვარი: თამარ ქებურია
ფაკულტეტი: მეცნიერებათა და ხელოვნების ფაკულტეტი
ხელმძღვანელი ილიაუნი: ოლივერ რაისნერი
ხელმძღვანელი გოტინგენი: ანკე ჰილბრენერი
This PhD project aims to study and reconstruct the everyday life practices and experiences of people living in the peripheral city of Zestafoni (West Georgia), whose lives were shaped in parallel with the historical development of an industrial plant – the first ferroalloy producer in the Soviet Union. Zestafoni’s ferroalloy factory, first named after Lavrenti Beria, and later renamed following the denouncement of his legacy, was constructed as part of Soviet industrialization in 1936]. The construction of the metallurgical plant, that massively determined the social and cultural trajectory of the previously agrarian region of Zestafoni, was undertaken with several intentions – to boost Georgia’s industrial production, to create an industrial working class, to foster modernization and to craft the Georgian Homo-Sovieticus.
Drawing on the analysis of this historical period, the study attempts to summon the bottom-up history of Late Socialist Georgia by examining the biograhy and life trajectories of former industrial workers and (female) citizens of Zestafoni. In addition, a deep exploration of archival materials, including official decrees, state records and communications, is underway to understand the economic and social context of factory’s production plans, decision making processes and power relations on both the factory floor and at the national and regional levels.
Hence, the project operates at the intersection of the broader academic fields of Eastern European history and Late Socialism Studies by contributing to the analysis of the historical period which remains underexplored within the Georgian context. Drawing on archival work and oral history, the project will examine the simultaneous processes of industrial and social transformations of rural Georgia, and at the same time critically reflect on the common and ambivalent trends of Sovietization and proletarianization of ordinary people. By doing so, the project will open up the floor for a latent discussion of the social history of late socialism by stressing the variety of visions and memories concerning the Soviet past after Stalin’s death. By doing so, the PhD project will expand the academic discussion surrounding the socialist features of the Late Soviet system and its equivocal mode of rule.
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