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The Georgian Collections of the Library of Congress, Part II: The 20th and 21st Centuries

Posted by: Levon Avdoyan

The history of Georgia and the growth of the Georgian language and ancillary collections at the Library of Congress is the tale of three republics. The first independent Republic of Georgia was established in 1918 following the end of World War I and the dissolution of the Russian Empire. That Republic’s fall to the Bolsheviks …