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Guerrilla HistoryPost-Soviet Georgia History, and Today's Events w/ Sopo JaparidzeIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Georgian labor union leader and writer Sopo Japaridze to run through post-Soviet Georgia's history to help us understand the events that are unfolding today! This is a critical discussion that hopefully will be of use to many of you who find yourself not knowing as much about Georgia as you wish you did, and will allow you to understand the ongoing events much better. We certainly found quite a bit of value in this episode, and look forward to bringing Sopo back to discuss the history of Soviet Georgia in the fu...2025-01-172h 06

Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Georgia's Democratic Crisis w/ Sopo JaparidzeLarry Bartels discusses his Foreign Affairs article about the right-wing “populist wave." Sopo Japaridze, co-author of a recent Jacobin article, examines the crisis of democracy in Georgia (the country, not the US state). Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html 2024-12-1053 min

Trademark Belfast123. Georgia on my mindStiofán Ó Nualláin chats with Sopo Japaridze on what's actually happening in Georgia.2024-12-0641 min

War Nerd Radio — Subscriber FeedRadio War Nerd EP 483 — Georgia Elections & Precarious Neutrality, feat. Sopo JaparidzeCo-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames 2024-11-221h 50

JACOBIN PodcastGeorgiens Opposition will ihre Niederlage nicht akzeptieren – von Sopo Japaridze Laut Regierungsgegnern waren die Wahlen in Georgien »durchweg gefälscht«. Handfeste Beweise dafür gibt es bislang aber nicht. Wahrscheinlicher ist, dass die in den Städten konzentrierte Opposition es nicht geschafft hat, die Landbevölkerung zu überzeugen. Artikel vom 01. November 2024: https://jacobin.de/artikel/georgien-wahl-faelschung-opposition Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Ab sofort gibt es die besten Beiträge als Audioformat zum Nachhören. Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen erreichen und kostenlos...2024-11-0528 min

Armenian News Network - Groong: Week In Review PodcastSopo Japaridze - Georgian Parliamentary Elections, October 2024 | Ep 377 - Oct 25, 2024Sopo Japaridze - Georgian Parliamentary Elections, October 2024 | Ep 377 - Oct 25, 2024Conversations on Groong - Oct 25, 2024Topics: - Georgian Elections in 2024 - Election Landscape - Themes of the Campaigns - Comparison with Moldova 2024 - Outcomes and ExpectationsGuest: Sopo JaparidzeHosts: - Hovik Manucharyan - Asbed BedrossianShow notes: https://podcasts.groong.org/377Episode 375 | Recorded: October 23, 2024Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong 2024-10-251h 03

Actually Existing SocialismRemembering Soviet Georgia's Healthcare w/ Sopo JaparidzeIn this episode we’ll be discussing Sopo's article on Jacobin entitled "How Free-Market Ideologues Dismantled Health Care in Post-Soviet Georgia". In doing so we will be talking about not only her memories of Soviet Georgia, but the memories of her family members and Georgian workers, doctors and nurses. We delve into the origins of the soviet socialist healthcare system, its operations, its historic outcomes, as well as its catastrophic dismantling in the 1990s. Sopiko Japaridze is cofounder of Georgia’s Solidarity Network, an independent union. She has been a labor and community organizer in the United Stat...2024-05-2151 min

Armenian News Network - Groong: Week In Review PodcastSopo Japaridze - USSR: A common Home & History | Armenian Georgian Relations - Ep 330 - May 18, 2024Sopo Japaridze - USSR: A common Home & History | Armenian Georgian Relations - Ep 330 - May 18, 2024Conversations on GroongTopics:Labor Unions, Organization and NGOs in GeorgiaUSSR: A common Home & HistoryGeorgia’s Foreign Agent BillArmenia-Georgian RelationsGuest:Sopo Japaridze - TW/@sopjapHosts:Hovik Manucharyan - TW/@HovikYerevanAsbed Bedrossian - TW/@qubriqEpisode 330 | Recorded: May 17, 2024Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong 2024-05-181h 15

JACOBIN PodcastDie georgische Demokratie krankt nicht an einer Nähe zu Russland – von Almut Rochowanski und Sopo Japaridze Georgiens Proteste werden zum Kampf um die Zukunft des Landes in Europa stilisiert. Dabei will die Regierung selbst den EU-Beitritt. Die Wahrheit ist: NGO-Macht ist ein echtes Problem für die Demokratie, das Ausländische-Agenten-Gesetz aber keine Lösung. Artikel vom 07. Mai 2024: https://www.jacobin.de/artikel/georgien-proteste-ngo-gesetz-russland-europa Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Ab sofort gibt es die besten Beiträge als Audioformat zum Nachhören. Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen...2024-05-0822 min

Corner SpätiEverything you need to know about Georgia (feat. Sopo Japaridze)We talk to writer, podcaster and union organiser Sopo Japaridze about the protests over the 'Foreign Agents' law in Georgia FIND OUR GUEST HERE: https://twitter.com/sopjap HOW TO SUPPORT US: https://www.patreon.com/cornerspaeti HOW TO REACH US: Corner Späti https://twitter.com/cornerspaeti Julia https://twitter.com/KMarxiana Rob https://twitter.com/leninkraft Nick https://twitter.com/sternburgpapi Uma https://twitter.com/umawrnkl Ciarán https://twitter.com/CiaranDoldSupport Corner Späti 2023-03-201h 17

War Nerd Radio — Subscriber FeedRadio War Nerd EP 369 — Georgia Protests & NGO Colonialism, feat. Sopo JaparidzeCo-hosts Gary Brecher & Mark Ames 2023-03-121h 57

Reimagining Soviet GeorgiaEpisode 23: Collapse of the Soviet Union with Vladislav ZubokHow the Soviet Union came to an end in 1991, after its nearly seventy year existence, is a process and event still mired in controversy and debate. Historians, politicians, citizens of the post-Soviet world and beyond understand this epochal event in drastically different ways - was it the result of internal contradictions of the Soviet system? Did pressure from the capitalist world force the USSR into an arms race that led to economic ruin? Was the Soviet Union consciously dismembered by elites from the national republics? Did Gorbachev undermine his own political goals or was the rise of Boris Yeltsin t...2023-01-121h 32

Red Lens podcastRed Lens 10: Documenting socialist history with Sopo Japaridze of Reimagining Soviet GeorgiaOn episode 10 of Red Lens, I talk with Sopo Japaridze. Sopo is a union leader in the country of Georgia, and a co-founder of the Reimagining Soviet Georgia documentation project & podcast, looking at the history of Georgia when it was a socialist republic that was part of the Soviet Union. On Twitter you can find Sopo at https://twitter.com/sopjap She posts frequent engaging content so give her a follow! Follow Reimagining Soviet Georgia on Twitter at https://twitter.com/reimaginingg Listen to the podcast on major podcast...2022-12-011h 15

Corner SpätiSaakashvili has so much FOMO feat. Sopo JaparidzeThis week we have on union organiser and writer Sopo Japaridze to talk about Georgia, the nation from independence to now. Also Kanye, we talked about Kanye. FIND OUR GUEST: https://twitter.com/sopjap https://twitter.com/reimaginingg https://jacobinmag.com/author/sopiko-japaridze https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/sopiko-japaridze/ https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/georgia-mikheil-misha-saakashvili-ukraine HOW TO SUPPORT US: https://www.patreon.com/cornerspaeti HOW TO REACH US: Corner Späti https://twitter.com/cornerspaeti Julia https://twitter.com/KMarxiana Rob https://twitter.com/leninkraft 2022-03-141h 36

Corner SpätiUNLOCKED: We Were Wrong / Fish Emoji BullshitAn update from Ciarán on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and then some levity from a now lost bonus episode. Sorry for the Ciarán ASMR, the baby was sleeping PEOPLE AND PULICATIONS I RECOMMENDED: Ben Aris https://twitter.com/bneeditor Volodymyr Ishchenko https://twitter.com/Volod_Ishchenko Leonid Ragozin https://twitter.com/leonidragozin Sopo Japaridze https://twitter.com/sopjap Foreign Exchanges Newsletter https://fx.substack.com/ Dan Boeckner https://twitter.com/DanBoeckner Gerard Toal’s piece in Jacobin https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/donbas-escalation-putin-russia-ukraine-war-sanctions-humanitarian-protection HOW TO SUPP...2022-02-2757 min

Reimagining Soviet GeorgiaEpisode 13: Women & Film in Early Soviet Georgia with Salome TsopurashviliOne of the Soviet Union's most well known directors Mikhail Kalatozov was born as Mikhail Kalatoziashvili in Tiflis in 1903. Before releasing his more famous works such as Soy Cuba (1964) and The Cranes Are Flying (1957), or winning an award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, he along with Nutsa Gogoberidze (Soviet Georgia's first female director) co-directed their first film together - a documentary called Their Kingdom (1928). For decades Their Kingdom was lost in Moscow archives and was only recently rediscovered. The film is an early Soviet critique of the Menshevik controlled Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-21) (also known as the First...2021-12-301h 28

Red Star Over AsiaReimagining Soviet Georgia w/ Sopo Japardize Pt. 2This is part two of a two-part episode with Sofia Japardize, a labor activist based in Tblisi, Georgia. Before preceding, we highly recommend hitting the pause button and starting with part 1! Georgia is in some ways ‘a land between’. Red Star tends to focus on East Asian topics, but we had the opportunity to have on a good friend of the show, Sopo Japardize. She's a labor organizer based in Tblisi, Georiga, a fascinating country located at the nexus of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Most listeners will probably know Georgia as the former USSR republic. Sopo and her comr...2021-09-2159 min

Red Star Over AsiaReimagining Soviet Georgia w/ Sopo Japardize Pt. 1For this episode, we go to the far Western edges of ‘Asia’, the Republic of Georgia. Georgia is in some ways ‘a land between’. Red Star tends to focus on East Asian topics, but we had the opportunity to have on a good friend of the show, Sopo Japardize. She's a labor organizer based in Tblisi, Georiga, a fascinating country located at the nexus of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Most listeners will probably know Georgia as the former USSR republic. Sopo and her comrades host a great podcast focused on this legacy called ‘Reimagining Soviet Georgia’, links to which are be...2021-09-1449 min

Reimagining Soviet GeorgiaEpisode 5: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism with Keti ChukhrovOn today’s episode, Sopo Japaridze and Beka Natsvlishvili have an engaging discussion with philosopher Keti Chukhrov. Keti was born in Soviet Georgia in the 1970s and since then has gone on to write articles and books touching subjects such as art criticism, philosophy, political theory and more. Sopo, Beka and Keti discuss the premise of her recent book Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism. Keti’s book is a much needed intervention into anti-capitalist discourse. Her thorough knowledge of both Soviet philosophy and Marxists from the West allow her to grapple directly with the...2021-07-021h 29

Reimagining Soviet GeorgiaEpisode 4: The First Republic with Stephen F. JonesDuring the Russian Civil War, between May 1918 and February 1921, the Democratic Republic of Georgia – known as the First Republic - was a nominally independent state controlled by social democrats. These Georgian social democrats were Mensheviks. Formally, Menshevism and Bolshevism were two distinct wings of the empire wide Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. In the decades leading up to 1918, Menshevism and Bolshevism in Georgia had more politically in common than not. Over time strategic and political differences set them apart. Georgian Menshevism, led by Noe Zhordania and others, blended a particular vision of Georgian nationhood and national liberation wit...2021-06-081h 13

Reimagining Soviet GeorgiaEpisode 3: Stalin, Social Democracy and Georgia with Ronald Grigor SunyRonald Grigor Suny’s decades long career as a historian transformed historiography of the Soviet Union by centering the nation and nationality. He did this with special attention to the nations of the South Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan and of course, Georgia. Suny’s analysis focused on how nationhood is a constructed product of history, and imagined, not a primordial, essential, ethnic community. Suny’s newest book Stalin: Passage To Revolution is a look at the early part of Josef Stalin’s life in the years leading up to the 1917 Russian Revolution. The book interrogates the world that mad...2021-05-241h 07

contrasensTransnational strike: organizing women, migrant and essential workersAre you celebrating this 1st of May? And how did you spend the 8th of March? In this episode, we talk about the transnational organizing of E.A.S.T., Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational, a network born to respond to the pressures of capitalist exploitation, migrant precarity and the additional burden of the COVID-19 pandemic. E.A.S.T., together with Transnational Social Strike, emphasize the importance of connecting existing struggles beyond the national level and of standing against patriarchal and racist violence. We hear from three feminist activists on these matters and more. Invited guests: Eleonora Cappuccilli, from EAST...2021-04-301h 13