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Timothy K. Blauvelt
Timothy K. Blauvelt is a Professor at Ilia State University in Tbilisi and also Regional Director for the South Caucasus for American Councils. He has published many peer reviewed articles and book chapters, and is the co-editor of Georgia after Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet power (2016), of The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic of 1918 (2021) and author of Clientalism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba.
Biography
Timothy K. Blauvelt is Professor of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and is also Regional Director for the South Caucasus for American Councils.Education
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PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2001
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Russian and Soviet History, the Caucasus, Nationalism and Nationality Policy, Language and Language Policy
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BASEES Podcast: Episode 31. Timothy Blauvelt & Francis King: Clientelism and Nationality in Early Soviet Abkhazia
By: Timothy K. Blauvelt
Subjects: History, Political Science, Politics & International Relations
In this podcast, Timothy Blauvelt of Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, in conversation with Francis King of the University of East Anglia's East Centre, considers the early years of Soviet Abkhazia and its well-connected leader, Nestor Lakoba. The discussion ranges over Lakoba's role in the revolution, his career as the indispensable Bolshevik figure in Soviet Abkhazia, and what his story reveals about nationality policy and personal patronage in the pre-war USSR. It touches on themes considered at greater length in Timothy Blauvelt, Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom. The Trials of Nestor Lakoba (Routledge, 2021).
"Eastern Europe's Minorities in a Century of Change", a podcast series on the history of minorities and minority experiences in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe prepared by the BASEES Study Group for Minority History to mark the Institute for Historical Research’s centenary. The co-conveners of the Study Group are Olena Palko (Birkbeck) and Samuel Foster (University of East Anglia)
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Honorable Mention in Ab Imperio Quarterly
By: Timothy K. Blauvelt
Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom won Honorable Mention in the 2021 Ab Imperio Quarterly award for best study in new imperial history and the history of diversity in Northern Eurasia.
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Featured interview on the SRB Podcast!
By: Timothy K. Blauvelt
Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia
Guest:
Timothy Blauvelt is Professor of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and Regional Director for the South Caucasus for American Councils for International Education. His newest book is Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba published by Routledge.
Music:
Adam Ant, “Friend or Foe,” Antbox, 2000.