@article{1479371,
      recid = {1479371},
      author = {Jones, Stephen F., },
      title = {Socialism in Georgian Colors : The European Road to Social  Democracy, 1883-1917 /},
      pages = {1 online resource (410 p.)},
      abstract = {Georgian social democracy was the most successful social  democratic movement in the Russian Empire. Despite its  small size, it produced many of the leading revolutionary  figures of 1917, including Irakli Tsereteli, Karlo  Chkheidze, Noe Zhordania, and Joseph Stalin. In the first  of two volumes, Stephen Jones writes the first history in  English of this undeservedly neglected national movement,  which represented one of the earliest examples of European  social democracy at the turn of the twentieth century.  Georgian social democracy was part of the Russian social  democracy from which Bolshevism and Menshevism emerged. But  innovative theoretical programs and tactics led Georgian  social democracy down an independent path. The powerful  Georgian organization united all native classes behind it,  and it set a remarkable precedent for many of the  anti-colonial nationalist movements of the twentieth  century. At the same time, Georgian social democracy was  committed to a "European" path, a "third way" that  attempted to combine grassroots democracy, private  manufacturing, and private land ownership with socialist  ideology. One of the few Western historians fluent in  Georgian, Jones fills major gaps in the history of  revolutionary and national movements of the Russian  Empire.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479371},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674274273},
}