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| | Preface | ix |
| | Ackhowledgement | x |
| | Introduction | xi |
| | References | 187 |
| | Index | 197 |
| Part I. | 1. Location, territory, Resources, Regions | 1 |
| | The geopolitical Situation | 1 |
| | Administrative-territorial Division | 5 |
| | Space for Economic and Social Life | 8 |
| | natural resources for Economic Development and their Use | 12 |
| | Social regions | 14 |
| | 2. The historical-geographical Background | 17 |
| | Language and the Identification of the Nation | 17 |
| | Ancient and Medieval Georgia | 18 |
| | The Russian Domimation | 26 |
| | The First Republic | 31 |
| | Communist Georgia : (The Second Republic) | 33 |
| | The restoration of Independence and After : (The Third Republic) | 38 |
| | 3. Population | 45 |
| | Population Dynamics | 45 |
| | Geographical Distribution of Population and Urbanization | 47 |
| | Trends in Fertility, Mortality and natural Growth | 49 |
| | Sex and Age Structure | 52 |
| | Family, Marriage, Divorce | 53 |
| | Education | 56 |
| | Employment and Unemployment | 57 |
| | Social Stratification and Class Structure | 63 |
| | Migrations | 67 |
| | Way of life and types of dwelling | 68 |
| | 4. Ethnicity and religion | 73 |
| | Ethnic Dynamics and Structure | 73 |
| | Georgians | 75 |
| | Location of the Non-Georgian Population | 79 |
| | Abkhaz | 81 |
| | Ossetians | 86 |
| | Armenians | 89 |
| | Slavic Peoples | 90 |
| | Azeric | 92 |
| | Greeks | 93 |
| | Jews | 94 |
| | Kurds | 94 |
| | Geography of religions | 95 |
| | Inter-Ethjnis Relations : Sociolinguistic Patterns | 98 |
| Part II. | Specific Issues | 106 |
| | 5. The Changing Problems of Society | 106 |
| | Problems of Transition to a Market Economy | 106 |
| | Social Problems as Perceived by Public Opinion | 111 |
| | 6. Regional Differences in Welfare | 117 |
| | Changing Trends of Welfare | 117 |
| | Spatial Patterns of Welfare in the Late 1980s | 119 |
| | Criteria for Analysis | 120 |
| | Evakuation by Individual Indicators | 121 |
| | Summary Rankings | 130 |
| | Public Opinion of the Welfare of Social Regions | 133 |
| | 7. Spatial Aspects of Deviance | 137 |
| | General Trends | 137 |
| | Changes in the Dynamics and Structure of Crime and Convicxtion | 138 |
| | Spatial Patterns of Crime and Conviction | 143 |
| | Spatial Aspects of Drug Abuse | 148 |
| | 8. Tbilisi and its Metropolitan region : Social Problems in Space | 153 |
| | Tbilisi Metropolitan region Againts the Background of Georgia | 153 |
| | Development of the TMR Under Socialism | 156 |
| | Social Problems of the TMR in Late 1980s | 160 |
| | New Trends in the Social Problems of the TMR | 163 |
| | 9. Ethnic Tensions in Geographical Context | 169 |
| | Background for Ethnic Tensions | 169 |
| | A Geographical Approach to Ethnic Tensions in Georgia | 173 |
| | The Geopolitical Context of the Conflict in Abkhazia | 175 |
| | Conflict in Tskhinvali Region, Formerly South Ossetia | 181 |
| | The Problem of the Return of the Meskhetian Muslims | 183 |
| | 10. Coclusion | 185 |