The University of Georgia

Tsotne Tchanturia
Invited Lecturer
Doctor
Department of History
School of Arts and Humanities

Education

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University - Social-Political Sciences - Bachelor - 2006-04-09 - 2010-07-30

Europa-Universität Flensburg - International Studies - Master - 2011-05-09 - 2014-05-20

Corvinus University of Budapest - Doctoral School of International Relations and Political Science - Doctor - 2015-09-14 - 2022-06-29

Publications

The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 3 (1969–1980) - 2016

French Diplomatic Documents on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution - 2017

The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 5 (1988–1991) - 2017

The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 4 (1981–1987) - 2017

Media and Internal Security beyond the Liberal Narrative: The cases of Ecuador and Georgia - 2018

The Bibliography of New Cold War History: Second enlarged edition - 2018

The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 3 (1969–1980): Second enlarged edition - 2018

The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945–1991: A Chronology Part 4 (1981–1987): Second enlarged edition - 2018

The Nationality Politics of 1989 in the Soviet Union according to the Gorbachev Foundation archives, Köz-gazdaság - Review of Economic Theory and Practice, Vol. 14, N.1, pp. 136-149. - 2019

Students of the Cold War: New Findings and Interpretations - 2019

In Search for the Post-Cold War Modus Vivendi in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe - 2019

Conferences

Challenges in Transatlantic integration, sharing experiences of Visegrad countries with Georgia - 16-10-2010

Security Issues in the South Caucasus and Central Asia - 12-08-2012

Futures of Democracy: Research and Policy Perspectives from Eastern European Neighborhood Countries - 12-12-2013

Slavic and Eurasian Studies - 22-09-2016

Contemporary Historiography in the post-Soviet states - 28-11-2016

Cold War history - 06-06-2017

Slavic and Eurasian Studies - 11-09-2017

South Caucasus Security - 13-05-2019

Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies - 05-11-2020

Courses

Modern Political History During the Cold War-HIST3127 ( 2019/2020; 2020/2021; 2021/2022; 2022/2023; 2023/2024; )

Tsotne Tchanturia is a political scientist specializing in Cold War history and the post-Soviet period. He was born in Sokhumi, Georgian SSR, in 1989. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Corvinus University of Budapest; an M.A. degree in European Studies from the Europa-Universität Flensburg and a B.A. degree in Political Science from the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Currently, he is lecturing "politics and history of post-Soviet states," and "history of Georgia" at the Caucasus University, and "contemporary political history during the Cold War" at the University of Georgia, Tbilisi. He is teaching Pearson Edexcel International GCSE in History at St. George's British-Georgian School in Tbilisi. He is also a research associate at the Cold War History Research Center in Budapest, where he occupied the position of research coordinator in 2015-2018. His research topics are the following: Soviet Union's foreign policy during the Gorbachev period, Gorbachev's policy vis a vis the Soviet bloc and the Baltic republics, democratization in the post-Soviet space, and the post-Soviet conflicts. He is a native speaker of Georgian and Megrelian; fluent in English, Russian, and German. He is an author and assistant editor of several articles and books, published in Hungary, the U.K., and Georgia. He is a former scholarship holder of DAAD and OSF, for pursuing M.A. studies in Germany and a former scholarship holder of the Tempus Foundation, for pursuing doctoral studies in Hungary