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The Politics of Identity in Post-Soviet Abkhazia: Managing Diversity and Unresolved Conflict1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Rachel Clogg
Rachel Clogg*
Affiliation:
Conciliation Resources, 173 Upper Street, London N1 1RG, UK. Email: rclogg@c-r.org
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The question of ethnic and national identity has dominated post-Soviet life in Abkhazia, which is situated on the Black Sea coast, in the north-west corner of the South Caucasus. Formerly an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, its status is now contested. Following violent armed conflict with Georgia over a period of 13 months in 1992/1993, Abkhazia became de facto independent. However, while not now under Georgian control, Abkhazia remains de jure part of the Republic of Georgia, which considers Abkhazia an integral component of its state. Abkhazia declared independence in 1999, a status that remains unrecognized by the international community.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , May 2008 , pp. 305 - 329
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Copyright © 2008 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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