Stalin's Cult in Georgian Colours: Stalinist History Textbooks, Press, Mass Culture and the Emergence of Georgian Stalinism, 1930-1956

牛津大学全球与区域研究学院的博士学位研究课题是建立在我的硕士论文基础上的，研究格鲁吉亚民族主义形式的起源和发展，这些形式为格鲁吉亚斯大林主义的出现创造了肥沃的土壤，旨在通过深入的档案研究扩大其范围。由于最近的公众调查，对格鲁吉亚斯大林主义的学术兴趣最近有所增加，显示对斯大林的形象的积极态度在他的祖国格鲁吉亚比在其他前苏联共和国更高。尽管各种研究表明斯大林主义话语与格鲁吉亚民族叙事之间存在明显的联系，但格鲁吉亚斯大林主义产生的民族主义形式的初始阶段仍未得到充分研究。这样的分析是特别相关的，因为有重要的档案证据表明，斯大林亲自参与了格鲁吉亚第一批官方历史教科书的编辑，并干预了格鲁吉亚大众文化的创造。为此，我的硕士论文集中于分析斯大林统治时期出版的格鲁吉亚历史教科书。在书中，我认为斯大林崇拜与著名的格鲁吉亚历史人物之间的联系已经从斯大林主义的历史教科书中浮现出来，渗透到格鲁吉亚民族主义的领域，产生了关于斯大林的格鲁吉亚爱国主义的神话，并具体化为斯大林主义的地方民族主义形式。在我的博士研究中，我计划将我的研究扩展到历史教科书之外，包括文学作品、绘画、电影和更广泛的档案材料，通过研究斯大林主义的文化政策和格鲁吉亚苏维埃社会主义共和国的历史写作政策，来解释格鲁吉亚民族主义和斯大林主义之间的矛盾联系。它将探讨斯大林领导下的共产党如何利用格鲁吉亚历史来使格鲁吉亚社会中的国家意识形态合法化，以及斯大林主义的文化政策及其在格鲁吉亚苏维埃社会主义共和国的公众接受在多大程度上促成了格鲁吉亚斯大林主义的出现。这样的研究之所以重要，有以下几个原因：首先，虽然格鲁吉亚斯大林主义因其令人困惑而吸引了学者的兴趣，但其历史起源仍未得到充分研究；其次，研究格鲁吉亚斯大林主义的起源可以更深入地理解斯大林的民族政策；第三，当代格鲁吉亚无所不在的斯大林主义情绪经常被各种宣传来源武器化，对其起源的全面了解是制定预防措施的关键。

The proposed research topic to be undertaken on a doctoral level at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies is built on my MA dissertation, examining the origins and the development of the Georgian nationalist forms that created the fertile grounds for the emergence of Georgian Stalinism, and aims to broaden its scope through in-depth archival research. The scholarly interest toward Georgian Stalinism has lately increased due to the recent public surveys, revealing that positive attitudes toward Stalin's figure are higher in his homeland, Georgia than in the other former Soviet republics. Although various studies indicate that there are apparent links between the Stalinist discourse and the Georgian national narrative, the initial phase of the nationalist forms upon which Georgian Stalinism has emerged, remains under-researched. Such analysis is especially relevant because there is significant archival proof that Stalin was personally involved in the editing of the first official history textbooks of Georgia and interfered in the creation of Georgian mass culture.For this, my MA dissertation was focused on the analysis of the Georgian history textbooks published during Stalin's rule. There I contended that the associations between Stalin's cult and the prominent Georgian historical figures have emerged out of the Stalinist history textbooks, penetrated the sphere of Georgian nationalism, gave rise to the myths about Stalin's Georgian patriotism and crystallized into the locally nationalist form of Stalinism. For my doctoral studies, I plan to expand my research beyond history textbooks and include literary works, paintings, films and a wider range of archival materials to explain the paradoxical linkage between the Georgian nationalism and Stalinism by examining the Stalinist cultural policy and the policy of history writing in the Georgian SSR. It will explore how the Communist Party under Stalin's leadership used Georgian history to legitimize state ideology in the Georgian society and to what extent the Stalinist cultural policy and its public reception in the Georgian SSR have contributed to the emergence of Georgian Stalinism. Such research is important for several reasons: first, while Georgian Stalinism attracts the interests of scholars due to its perplexity, its historical origins remain under-researched; Second, studying the origins of Georgian Stalinism can lead to a more in-depth understanding of Stalin's nationality policy; Third, omnipresent Stalinist sentiments in contemporary Georgia are often weaponized by various propaganda sources and the comprehensive understanding of their origins is a key for elaborating preventive measures against them.