Stephen F. Jones is Professor Emeritus of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College and Professor of Modern Georgian History at Ilia State University, Georgia. He is the founder of the Program on Georgian Studies at the Davis Center at Harvard and the author of Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917 and Georgia: A Political History Since Independence.

A splendid account, which breaks new ground. Stephen Jones brings Georgian Marxism back to life on its own terms and in its own time. He is brilliant at setting the national, social, and cultural context, and he succeeds in relating the Georgian movement to the wider frame of Russian imperial and indeed global history.

• Preface 1. The Historical Context 2. The Intellectual Roots of Georgian Social Democracy 3. The Mesame Dasi 4. The Working People 5. The Split 6. The Gurian Republic 7. 1905 8. New Directions 9. War and Revolution 10. Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

Stephen F. Jones is Professor Emeritus of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College and Professor of Modern Georgian History at Ilia State University, Georgia. He is the founder of the Program on Georgian Studies at the Davis Center at Harvard and the author of Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917 and Georgia: A Political History Since Independence.

A splendid account, which breaks new ground. Stephen Jones brings Georgian Marxism back to life on its own terms and in its own time. He is brilliant at setting the national, social, and cultural context, and he succeeds in relating the Georgian movement to the wider frame of Russian imperial and indeed global history.

• Preface 1. The Historical Context 2. The Intellectual Roots of Georgian Social Democracy 3. The Mesame Dasi 4. The Working People 5. The Split 6. The Gurian Republic 7. 1905 8. New Directions 9. War and Revolution 10. Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

Stephen F. Jones is Professor Emeritus of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College and Professor of Modern Georgian History at Ilia State University, Georgia. He is the founder of the Program on Georgian Studies at the Davis Center at Harvard and the author of Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917 and Georgia: A Political History Since Independence.

A splendid account, which breaks new ground. Stephen Jones brings Georgian Marxism back to life on its own terms and in its own time. He is brilliant at setting the national, social, and cultural context, and he succeeds in relating the Georgian movement to the wider frame of Russian imperial and indeed global history.

• Preface 1. The Historical Context 2. The Intellectual Roots of Georgian Social Democracy 3. The Mesame Dasi 4. The Working People 5. The Split 6. The Gurian Republic 7. 1905 8. New Directions 9. War and Revolution 10. Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index