Georgia’s First Republic

Not enough studies praise the Menshevik/Social Democrat country that existed in name 1918-21 before Bolsheviks ended independence.

“Stephen Jones, Ronald Suny and Charles Urjewicz consider themselves politically on the left side, thus close to Georgia’s ruling Social-Democrats in 1918-21, and hold critical views of Georgia’s recent, more right-leaning leaders.”

When three “politically on the left side” historians give opinions, who believes the “recent, more right-leaning leaders” will get a fair shake?

https://civil.ge/archives/246979

Who is to blame (for everything), and what is the fix?

“You know, today the world is moving in a very bad direction: Putin’s Russia, Erdogan’s Turkey, Orban’s Hungary, Trump’s America… Partly those leaders succeed, because we haven’t managed capitalism well enough for years. We need social-democratic control over free capitalism and the new generation in Georgia can get lessons about it from their First Republic.”

“(W)e haven’t managed capitalism well enough for years.”

Not since the collapse of Marxist-Leninist Soviet Union.