SovLab explained
| The SovLab Soviet Past Research Laboratory |
| Native Name: | საბჭოთა წარსულის კვლევის ლაბორატორია |
| Native Name Lang: | ka |
| Abbreviation: | SovLab |
| Status: | Nonprofit organization |
| Purpose: | studying the country’s Soviet totalitarian past and highlighting its political, legal and moral significance |
| Headquarters: | Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Language: | Georgian, English |
| Owners: | --> |
The SovLab Soviet Past Research Laboratory (Georgian: საბჭოთა წარსულის კვლევის ლაბორატორია) – SOVLAB – is a Georgian organization dedicated to studying the country's Soviet totalitarian past and highlighting its political, legal and moral significance.[1] [2]
Among other things, it has contributed to developing the Museum of Repressed Writers, at the Writer's House of Georgia.[3] The organization was founded in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2010 by historians, writers and some descendants of victims to contribute to public debate about the history of Georgia in the Soviet Union.[4] It regularly organizes events and exhibition, and has also published various books on Georgia's Soviet past.[5] SovLab marks July 30 as a day for commemoration for the victims of Soviet repression.[6]
Next to its focus on the Soviet past, SovLab has also worked to document Georgia's first democratic republic. In other projects, it has tried to trace mass graves from Soviet-era executions.[7]
Selected publications
- Topography of Terror – Soviet Tbilisi, 2011, 183 pages
- Rethinking the Soviet Past – Discussions, 2011, 194 pages
- Forgotten History: Memory of Repressed Women, 2012, 423 pages
- Experience of Community Self-organization and Cooperation in Georgia Prior to the Soviet Occupation – Vol 1 and 2, 2015, 134 and 185 pages, Vol 3, 2022, 170 pages
- Political Red Cross of Georgia: A Forgotten History, 2016, 209 pages
- The Constituent Assembly of Georgia – 1919, 2017, 519 pages
- Eroba, 2017, 381 pages
- Kalaki - The City, 2021, 286 pages
- Face to Face: Soviet Terror Oral Histories – Vol 1 – 1921-1935, 2020, 459 pages
- Georgian-German Cultural Mosaic, 2021, 256 pages
- Valiko Jugeli Heavy Cross, 2022, 389 pages
External links
Notes and References
- News: Vincent . Faustine . En Géorgie, " le pire musée du monde " à la gloire de Staline, trente ans après la chute de l'URSS . 21 July 2023 . Le Monde . 19 December 2021.
- News: Gente . Régis . Georgia's new generation of historians: seeking democracy's past . 21 July 2023 . Civil.GE . 23 August 2018.
- News: Gutbrod . Hans . Paolo Iashvili and the Writer's House of Georgia – Museum of Repressed Writers opens in Sololaki . 21 July 2023 . Investor.GE . 21 July 2023.
- News: Veser . Reinhard . Das Gespenst des großen Führers . 21 July 2023 . FAZ . 5 March 2023.
- Web site: SOVLAB – Soviet Past Research Laboratory . Soviet Past Research Laboratory - The Sigrid Rausing Trust . 21 July 2023.
- News: In Photos: Remembering Victims of Soviet Terror . 21 July 2023 . CivilGE . 30 July 2021.
- Book: Junge . Marc . Bonwetsch . Bernd . Bolschewistische Ordnung in Georgien: der Große Terror in einer kleinen kaukasischen Republik . 2015 . De Gruyter Oldenbourg . Berlin Boston . 978-3110410396 . 20 . 10.1515/9783110410396 . 21 July 2023.
