The 25th of February, 1921 from the celebration to the occupation

Abstract

The paper discusses how the interpretation about the past political experice of Georgiahad changed through the various periods of times in the twentieth century. The research consentrates on Georgia’s Sovietization date the 25^th of Fabruary, 1921 and explores how the meaning of the date was constructed by the Soviet government (in the early twevnties of the twentieth century) and how the forgotten narrative about the day was rediscovered by the Georgian Natonal Movement, political elites and scholars in history. There were no any alternative narratives about Georgia’s political development in the Soviet discourse of events. No one was allowed to question the established vision about the Sovietization of Georgia, but after the declared policies of Perestroika and Glasnost the National Movement in Georgia started to question legacy of the Soviet governemt, alternative narratives of Goergia’s Sovietization were discussed by the scholars. Based on facts and documents research it turned out the 25^th of February, 1921 was not the day to be remembered and celebrated in a positive context forGeorgia, but it became the date of occupation of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921 years).