TY  - GEN
TI  - Soviet language policy in Georgian culture
Y1  - 2025/04/11/
SP  - 155
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PB  - Uzhhorod National University = ???? "???????????? ???????????? ???????????"
KW  - Georgian language
KW  -  Soviet Union
KW  -  korenizatsiia
KW  -  culture
ID  - discovery10206639
CY  - Uzhhorod, Ukraine
A1  - Chachanidze, Irine
UR  - https://www.uzhnu.edu.ua/en/
AV  - public
N2  - In the 20th century, after Sovietization in 1921, an aggressive Russi?cation language policy was carried out in Georgia, leading to the dominance of the Russian language (Lewis, 2019; Grenoble, 2003; Comrie, 1981).
Cultural pluralism, which in?uenced language policy, was divided into two main
forces: a centripetal force urging people to assimilate the Russian language and culture,
and a centrifugal force striving to preserve native languages and cultures and ?ghting for
separation (Marshall, 1992; Young, 1976; Kreindler, 1985).
The political and public ?gures of the First Democratic Republic of Georgia,
who were forced into exile, played a signi?cant role in the preservation of the Georgian
language and culture. They founded the Georgian press, which expressed strong Soviet
protest against the Russian Soviet regime.
The present paper aims to study the problems of Soviet language policy in Georgian
culture. The digital corpus of the Georgian émigré press from the period between the 1920s
and 1930s is used as empirical data. The results of the study reveal the threats posed by
the language policy, as documented in the Georgian émigré periodicals, and the pressure
experienced by the Georgian language and cultural ?elds during the Soviet era.
EP  - 173
ER  -