Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა
← 1936 — 1991 →
Flag Coat of arms
State motto: Georgian: პროლეტარებო ყველა ქვეყნისა, შეერთდით! Translation: Workers of the world, unite!
Capital	Tbilisi
Official language	Georgian, Russian, Abkhaz (in the Abkhazian ASSR), and Ossetic (in the South Ossetian AO)
Established In the USSR:  - Since  - Until	February 25 1921 December 30 1922 April 9, 1991
Area  - Total  - Water (%)	Ranked 10th in the USSR 69,700 km² negligible
Population  - Total   - Density	Ranked 9th in the USSR 4,337,600 (1989) 128.2/km²
Currency	rouble (მანეთი)
Time zone	UTC + 3
Anthem	Anthem of Georgian SSR
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The Georgian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic, საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, or Sak'art'velos Sabčota Soc'ialisturi Respublika) was one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union. It is now the independent state of Georgia in the South Caucasus. In Russian it was called Грузинская ССР (Gruzinskaya SSR). Established as a Soviet Socialist Republic on February 25 1921, from March 12 1922 to December 5 1936 it was part of the Transcaucasian SFSR together with the Armenian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR. In 1936, the TSFSR was dissolved. Under Stalin's rule, many Georgians were executed. Under Khrushchev, the government was decentralized and the Georgian Communist Party rose in power. Alongside it, a black market economy and corruption grew. Eduard Shevardnadze worked for years to fight this corruption from the mid 1960s until 1985, when he was appointed Soviet Foreign Minister. On October 28 1990, democratic parliamentary elections were held, and on November 15 the nation was renamed the Republic of Georgia. It declared independence on April 9, 1991, under nationalist leader Zviad Gamsakhurdia. However, this was unrecognized by the Soviet government until September 1991.

This article is part of the series on: History of Georgia

Prehistoric Georgia

Colchis

Egrisi

Caucasian Iberia

Medieval History

Tao-Klarjeti

Kingdom of Abkhazeti-Egrisi

Russian Rule

Georgia Under Imperial Russia

Early Independence

Democratic Republic of Georgia

Soviet Georgia

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

March 9 Tragedy

April 9 Tragedy

Modern Georgia

Republic of Georgia

Georgian Civil War

Rose Revolution

Post-Shevardnadze

History By Autonomous Republics

History of Abkhazia

History of Adjara This box:  •  • edit

See also

• History of the Georgian SSR
• Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR

•  • e Republics of the Soviet Union
Eastern Europe	Byelorussian SSR  ·  Moldavian SSR  ·  Russian SFSR  ·  Ukrainian SSR
Central Asia	Kazakh SSR  ·  Kirgiz SSR  ·  Tajik SSR  ·  Turkmen SSR  ·  Uzbek SSR
Transcaucasia	Armenian SSR  ·  Azerbaijan SSR  ·  Georgian SSR
The Baltics	Estonian SSR  ·  Latvian SSR  ·  Lithuanian SSR
Short-lived Soviet Republics	Abkhazian SSR (1921-1931)  ·  Transcaucasian SFSR (1922-1936)  · Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1956)