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245	1	0	_aThe First Social Democracy _bThe Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918-1921 _cStephen F. Jones
264			_aCambridge, Mass _bHarvard University Press _c2026
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520			_aThe enthralling, forgotten story of how the worlds first social democracy took shape in the wake of the Russian Revolution.Following the collapse of the Russian Empire, the small nation of Georgia established its independence in May 1918. Its leaders surprised the world by creating the first social democratic state. Based on a combination of parliamentarianism and direct democracy, it was a representative government of the peasants and workers themselves, with ballots in their hands.The First Social Democracy is the definitive history of a government that should inspire social democrats today. Stephen F. Jones chronicles how the founders of the new state navigated myriad challenges, including territorial threats from abroad, internal ethnic conflicts, and geopolitical rivalries between the imperial Ottomans, the British, and the Germans. In the midst of these existential challenges, Georgias social democrats set about writing a constitution to put the country on a distinctive path of genuine self-government-protecting democratic rights, promoting political pluralism, and championing equality. Jones brings to life the passionate debates that shaped Georgias democracy during a moment of acute global instability.The Democratic Republic of Georgia was strangled in its crib. Just four days after the constitution was ratified, the capital fell to the Red Army. Under Soviet rule, the republic was lost to history. Soviet scholars were forbidden to research this Georgian story, and Western scholars had little interest in a small and peripheral state that was independent for only three years. Recovering a forgotten experiment in democratic citizenship and statecraft, Jones reminds us of those audacious times when Georgians created and defended political freedom against the rise of Soviet communism.
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