Even though he was a Georgian, and he opposed Georgian nationalism, he talked like a Slavophile, which was an advantage.

They served as intellectual support to the Stalin-era assimilation policy and had a profound influence on the Georgian nationalism in the 1980s.

It was not long before Georgian nationalism in earnest began to make itself heard.

Stalin's successful appeal for patriotic unity eclipsed Georgian nationalism during the war and diffused it in the years following.

The loyalty to the Union was gravely compromised and an anti-Soviet sentiment became an essential feature of the reemerging Georgian nationalism.

Soviet power and Georgian nationalism clashed in 1978 when Moscow ordered revision of the constitutional status of the Georgian language as Georgia's official state language.

A longtime anti-Soviet dissident, he based his campaign for the presidency on an emerging Georgian nationalism, using the platform "Georgia for the Georgians".

We do need to be mindful of this aspect of Georgian nationalism as well.

Georgian nationalism, Russian nationalism, Abkhazian nationalism and South Ossetian nationalism is war!

He saved the young Joseph Stalin from expulsion for Georgian nationalism in 1904.