Authors

Sophia Guliashvili¹;  ¹ The University of Georgia, Georgia

Discussion

Very often the political and ideological taboos existed in Soviet reality are discussed in the context of censorship of literary works, or translation, and editorial processes. But there is another very interesting aspect of the relationship between the Soviet author and the state – the influence of the Soviet ideology on various areas of scientific work.

It is known that there is no consensus among scholars as to which period may be tentatively taken for the inception of Georgian literature. Some think that the origins of Georgian literature date to the fourth century, when the Georgian people were converted to Christianity. Although, undoubtable evidence on the earliest Georgian literature dates from the fifth century. In any case, from the very beginning until the tenth century Georgian writings represented ecclesiastical literature and despite its religious nature to study this important part of the cultural heritage of Georgian people was necessary.

The studies of the ancient Georgian literature under the direct or hidden influence of Soviet censorship will be discussed in the current paper, and by analyzing various fundamental works interesting material will be shown to make conclusions about topic.