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Episode 2: Soviet Georgian Migrants, Memory and Rivers with Jeff Sahadeo
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During the late USSR, thousands of people from Soviet Georgia relocated to both Leningrad and the all-Soviet capital, Moscow. Many left Soviet Georgia to study in universities, for job placements or other career opportunities. Some of these people stayed, while others returned. Some went to Leningrad and Moscow as traders of fruits or flowers, using trade networks and access to desirable goods in Georgia to forge out comfortable livings for themselves.
We spoke with Jeff Sahadeo about his book “Voices From the Soviet Edge” which uses oral histories to explore the experiences and memories of these Soviet migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia. In particular he explains to us what the experiences of the Georgian migrants were, what their lives were like, what the Soviet experience meant to them, and how life in the Soviet Union was remembered as one of freedom, stability and better days.
We also discuss the subject of professor Sahadeo's new research project on water and rivers in Soviet and post-Soviet Georgia. As Georgia is home to thousands of rivers, in the Soviet era they became hugely important to modernization projects and city planning. Towards the end of the USSR, environmental concerns relating to dams in Georgia were issues nationalists seized upon. In Georgia today, the construction of dams and hydroelectric power plants are as contentious as ever - overseen by multinational corporations which demonstrate a formidable shift from how Soviet-era projects were undertaken.
49 episoder
Manage episode 293229695 series 2930374
During the late USSR, thousands of people from Soviet Georgia relocated to both Leningrad and the all-Soviet capital, Moscow. Many left Soviet Georgia to study in universities, for job placements or other career opportunities. Some of these people stayed, while others returned. Some went to Leningrad and Moscow as traders of fruits or flowers, using trade networks and access to desirable goods in Georgia to forge out comfortable livings for themselves.
We spoke with Jeff Sahadeo about his book “Voices From the Soviet Edge” which uses oral histories to explore the experiences and memories of these Soviet migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia. In particular he explains to us what the experiences of the Georgian migrants were, what their lives were like, what the Soviet experience meant to them, and how life in the Soviet Union was remembered as one of freedom, stability and better days.
We also discuss the subject of professor Sahadeo's new research project on water and rivers in Soviet and post-Soviet Georgia. As Georgia is home to thousands of rivers, in the Soviet era they became hugely important to modernization projects and city planning. Towards the end of the USSR, environmental concerns relating to dams in Georgia were issues nationalists seized upon. In Georgia today, the construction of dams and hydroelectric power plants are as contentious as ever - overseen by multinational corporations which demonstrate a formidable shift from how Soviet-era projects were undertaken.
49 episoder
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×1 Episode 47: EU Referendum and Elections in Moldova with Vitalie Sprînceană 1:12:23
1 Episode 46: Anti-Soviet Memory Politics in Georgia with Beka Natsvlishvili 1:25:41
1 Episode 45: Georgia's Neoliberal Lock-in with Tato Khundadze 1:17:23
1 Episode 44: War, Class and Economy in Ukraine with Peter Korotaev 1:32:22
1 Episode 43: Life on the Left with Helena Sheehan 1:12:57
1 Episode 42: Soviet Anti-Colonialism & the East with Masha Kirasirova 1:25:17
1 Episode 41: Europe, Memory and the Resurgent Right with David Broder 2:22:49
1 Episode 40: Baku Oil, Bolsheviks and Sovietization in the South Caucasus with Sara Brinegar 1:12:20
1 Episode 39: Georgia's Chronic Crisis with Anatol Lieven and Almut Rochowanski 1:12:42
1 Episode 38: Post-Socialist Mortality Crisis with Gabor Scheiring 1:27:30
1 Episode 37: Georgian Film, Emigration and Post Soviet Life with Levan Koguashvili 1:09:08
1 Episode 36: Tea Production in Soviet Georgia with Camille Neufville 1:02:56
1 Episode 35: Dollarization in Georgia with Ia Eradze 1:14:41
1 Episode 34: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution with Vincent Bevins 1:56:23
1 Episode 33: Vacations, Sanatoria and the Soviet Dream with Diane P. Koenker 1:13:11
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