Georgianization

English Etymology From en Georgianize ation. Noun - The act or process of Georgianizing. en 1997 Institutions, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: International Experience and Its Implications for the Caucasus, May 2-3, 1997 : Conference Report Georgianization policies are emphasized in this narrative, especially those from 1937-53. en 1998 Beverly Crawford; Ronnie D. Lipschutz The Myth of "ethnic Conflict": Politics, Economics, and "cultural" Violence University of California International The success of Georgianization is probably best illustrated by the fact that virtually all Abkhazes living in Ajaria know Georgian, with one-fifth even claiming it as their mother tongue, compared to an astonishingly low 1.4 percent among their compatriots in Abkhazia en 2019 Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood Maxim Tabachnik 245 Abkhazian historians explain that Georgian authorities justified Georgianization to Moscow by the communist party's goal of eventual assimilation of everyone into the Soviet people with Abkhaz assimilation a part of the process.