The German perspective on the Transcaucasian Federation and the influence of the Committee for Georgia’s Independence

IF 0.5 Q3 AREA STUDIES

Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/23761199.2020.1714877

L. Bakradze

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Abstract

ABSTRACT At the onset of the First World War in August 1914, a group of Georgian émigrés in Europe and the Ottoman Empire offered their cooperation to the German side. Intent on weakening the Entente through supporting uprisings among those states’ colonized nations, the German government was interested in such cooperation. In September 1914 the “Committee for Georgia’s Independence” was formed, which up until 1918 maintained close relations with various state agencies of Germany and its allies, as well as with the anti-Russian forces of the Caucasus and the Russian Empire. The Committee for Georgia’s Independence aspired to present itself as a firm pillar for Germany among what the Germans referred to officially as the “revolutionizing” of the Caucasus. What vision of the future for Georgia and the Caucasus did this Georgian Committee harbour? To what extent did these visions influence German policies? And did the Committee play any role in the events that unfolded in the Caucasus in 1917–1918?

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德国对外高加索联邦的看法和格鲁吉亚独立委员会的影响

1914年8月第一次世界大战爆发之际，一群在欧洲和奥斯曼帝国的格鲁吉亚人向德国方面提出合作。德国政府意图通过支持这些国家的殖民地的起义来削弱协约国，因此对这种合作很感兴趣。1914年9月，“格鲁吉亚独立委员会”成立，直到1918年，该委员会与德国及其盟国的各个国家机构，以及高加索地区的反俄势力和俄罗斯帝国保持着密切的关系。格鲁吉亚独立委员会(Committee for Georgia ' sindependence)渴望在德国官方所称的高加索地区“革命者”中，把自己塑造成德国的坚定支柱。格鲁吉亚委员会对格鲁吉亚和高加索地区的未来抱有怎样的设想?这些愿景在多大程度上影响了德国的政策?委员会在1917-1918年发生在高加索地区的事件中发挥了任何作用吗?

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Caucasus Survey Arts and Humanities-History

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1.30

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期刊介绍： Caucasus Survey is a new peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and independent journal, concerned with the study of the Caucasus – the independent republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, de facto entities in the area and the North Caucasian republics and regions of the Russian Federation. Also covered are issues relating to the Republic of Kalmykia, Crimea, the Cossacks, Nogays, and Caucasian diasporas. Caucasus Survey aims to advance an area studies tradition in the humanities and social sciences about and from the Caucasus, connecting this tradition with core disciplinary concerns in the fields of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, cultural and religious studies, economics, political geography and demography, security, war and peace studies, and social psychology. Research enhancing understanding of the region’s conflicts and relations between the Russian Federation and the Caucasus, internationally and domestically with regard to the North Caucasus, features high in our concerns.