Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Georgia’s Path From Soviet Republic To Free Market Democracy

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Recent years have seen Georgia move onward and upward, economically and in terms of standard of living

. Seen as a pro-American figure, and popular in Washington D.C. some eighteen years ago, Saakashvili has been all but forgotten by the West since he was jailed in October.

Saakashvili returned to Georgia in September, 2021, in preparation for the country’s October 30 local elections after spending eight years in exile following the end of his administration in 2013. He was arrested on October 1 on abuse of power charges levied at him following his tenure as head of state.

It’s the latest chapter in what has been the thrilling and at times heartbreaking story of Georgia’s journey from Soviet Republic to free market democracy. Often, in order to understand the present, we must look to the past. Giorgi Isakadze has been tuned into his nation’s story his entire life, most closely since the USSR and the Iron Curtain were dismantled some thirty years ago. Isakadze, 45, once a political advisor to the Georgian government, is now a widely recognized media personality, editor of Forbes Georgia and managing partner with BMG Media in the capital, Tbilisi.

Georgia came under Russia’s thumb after the Red Army entered Tbilisi in 1921 and established a Russian-style revolutionary government, becoming part of the Soviet Union a year later and a Soviet Republic in 1936.

 

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