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The Rose Revolution in Georgia

In: Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century

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  • Alexander Khodunov

    (Russian State University for the Humanities)

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Khodunov analyzes the Rose Revolution in 2003 in Georgia, events preceding this revolution, its external and internal causes, course and outcomes. The Rose Revolution was the first color revolution in the post-Soviet area. In the early 1990s Georgia experienced a civil war, a coup d’etat, and an unprecedented economic and demographic decline. After the end of the war, corruption and extreme poverty became the most pressing challenges, which caused resentment among the population. The state institutions were extremely weak. In this atmosphere, several former members of the government, backed by youth movements that led popular protests, contributed to a revolutionary overthrow of the former regime and started bringing the country closer to the West in matters of foreign policy and internal governance. Due to the radical internal reforms they launched, the country’s economy, despite another war in 2008, has grown very fast, and the demographic situation has improved considerably, although in the political sphere some elements of authoritarianism have persisted. After 2012, the pace of reform decelerated, and a considerable part of the Georgian population still lives in conditions of poverty. Khodunov concludes that, generally speaking, the progress brought by the Rose Revolution is evident.

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  • Alexander Khodunov, 2022. "The Rose Revolution in Georgia," Societies and Political Orders in Transition, in: Jack A. Goldstone & Leonid Grinin & Andrey Korotayev (ed.), Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century, pages 483-499, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-030-86468-2_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86468-2_18
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