%0 Journal Article %1 noauthororeditor %A Tabeshadze, Nino %D 2018 %J International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS) %K Collective Trauma %N 02 %P 31-39 %T Formation of Post-Traumatic Narratives (Case: Georgian and Russian Narratives after the August 2008) %U http://airccse.com/ijhas/papers/3218ijhas04.pdf %V 03 %X A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have’ – these words of Abraham Lincoln can easily be applied to the position of Georgian Policy-makers of such post-soviet country as Georgia. Georgian policymakers actively started to search for friends by creating the image of ‘shared enemy’, especially in 2009- 2012. This shared enemy was the Soviet Union. States united in Soviet Union should have higher solidarity towards each other than the others. This became clearly seen during the August War 2008 when Georgian politicians underlined the influence of Soviet Union stating that opposing country could not overcome the memory of past glory. It is not the secret, that the policy-makers have big impact on society. Especially on the society which was traumatized by the war. For Georgian community political myths became the main source of belief. Policy-makers became the main storytellers. And society became the target audience. We can easily imagine the condition of society, which was in depression thanks to the war. Then, new tendency took the lead: policy-makers stared to tell the ‘truth’ which people wanted to hear. Deeds of heroes, Violence of enemies, Struggle for freedom – all those stories can be found in speeches made by Georgian politicians after the war of 2008. Our aim is to investigate those speeches and to see how the icons of ‘heroes’/’enemies’ were created.

@article{noauthororeditor, abstract = {A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have’ – these words of Abraham Lincoln can easily be applied to the position of Georgian Policy-makers of such post-soviet country as Georgia. Georgian policymakers actively started to search for friends by creating the image of ‘shared enemy’, especially in 2009- 2012. This shared enemy was the Soviet Union. States united in Soviet Union should have higher solidarity towards each other than the others. This became clearly seen during the August War 2008 when Georgian politicians underlined the influence of Soviet Union stating that opposing country could not overcome the memory of past glory. It is not the secret, that the policy-makers have big impact on society. Especially on the society which was traumatized by the war. For Georgian community political myths became the main source of belief. Policy-makers became the main storytellers. And society became the target audience. We can easily imagine the condition of society, which was in depression thanks to the war. Then, new tendency took the lead: policy-makers stared to tell the ‘truth’ which people wanted to hear. Deeds of heroes, Violence of enemies, Struggle for freedom – all those stories can be found in speeches made by Georgian politicians after the war of 2008. Our aim is to investigate those speeches and to see how the icons of ‘heroes’/’enemies’ were created. }, added-at = {2018-06-21T08:31:38.000+0200}, author = {Tabeshadze, Nino}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2eac37a4b22a543122bce8e8b967c928e/ijhas}, interhash = {ebc5768c1c9a5962f054460ecef71fac}, intrahash = {eac37a4b22a543122bce8e8b967c928e}, journal = {International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)}, keywords = {Collective Trauma}, month = may, number = 02, pages = {31-39}, timestamp = {2018-06-21T08:31:38.000+0200}, title = {Formation of Post-Traumatic Narratives (Case: Georgian and Russian Narratives after the August 2008)}, url = {http://airccse.com/ijhas/papers/3218ijhas04.pdf}, volume = 03, year = 2018 }