ცენზორის ინსტიტუტი XIX საუკუნის 50-70-იანი წლების ქართული გამოცდილების კონტექსტში
Censorship in the Context of the Georgian Experience of the 50s-70s of the 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: Russia’s censorship policy in the Caucasus is part of the imperial-colonial goals that the highest authorities of this country had towards the people of the Caucasus. Specifically, the censorship policy of the empire in Georgia fought against the idea of the national identity of the Georgian people and the restoration of an independent Georgian state, and the people who dedicatedly fought for the realization of this idea. The history of Russian censorship in the Caucasus and Georgia officially begins in the middle of the 19th century, namely, from 1848, when the Caucasus Censorship Committee was established, which was the official institution implementing Russia’s chauvinist-colonial policy in the Caucasus and Georgia in particular. However, the pre-history of Russian censorship is longer and more loaded with imperial content, because its goal was much more difficult, namely: the abolition of the Georgian kingdom-principalities, the incorporation of all of Georgia into the imperial space, the Russification of the country. When we get acquainted with a lot of materials that reflect the intelligence activities of people with special tasks sent to Georgia by the Russian government, starting from Peter the Great, ending with the activities of people sent by the emperors Paul and Alexander, we realize that controlling the current events in our country was a priority of the Russian government’s foreign policy

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