“Nation and History” in Another Context: (Alexander Manvelishvili’s “La Formation De La Nation Géorgienne” [National Formation of Georgians])

Abstract

The definition of the concept nation as a unity that has emerged on ethnic or state grounds, is diversed in the scientific literature. In this background the literary work `National Formation of Geor­gians` by the Georgian emigrant of the soviet period, Alexander Manvelishvili, is extremely interesting.

The author provides an extended discussion of the genesis and major features of nation as a phenomenon, by means of which the primary goal of the work is attained - in a wide historical context and the establishment of the timespan of the final formation of Georgians as a nation.