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Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938. Georgia, a social-democratic peasant republic, impressions and observations - Image 49. 1921. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. February 27, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/3970/show/3902.

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Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938. (1921). Georgia, a social-democratic peasant republic, impressions and observations - Image 49. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/3970/show/3902

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Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938, Georgia, a social-democratic peasant republic, impressions and observations - Image 49, 1921, Socialist and Communist Pamphlets, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed February 27, 2021, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/3970/show/3902.

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Title	Georgia, a social-democratic peasant republic, impressions and observations
Creator (LCNAF)	Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938
Contributor (LCNAF)	Stenning, H. J. (Henry James), 1889-, translator
Publisher	International Bookshops
Place of Creation (TGN)	London, England
Date	1921
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Georgia
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	111, [1] pages; 19 cm
Original Item Location	DK5ll.G3K3 1921
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304504~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	Public Domain: This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 49
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_2669984_048.jpg
Transcript	CHAPTER VII. THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE GOVERNMENT. However favoured Georgia may be by nature, and however rational the democratic methods of its socialist government, its situation was anything but brilliant. We have already described the chief causes of its distress. They consist in the dependence of the economic life of Georgia upon foreign countries. Without the importation of corn, as well as of industrial products, and a corresponding exportation of its own products, such as manganese, copper, tobacco, wool, silk, and wine, the country cannot exist. The old trade connections were destroyed by the war, f which, still continues on the borders of Georgia, and renders difficult any relations with other countries. This is doubly unfortunate at a time when world commerce is impeded by various measures arising out of the aftereffects of the war and the general lack of confidence, which would be merely ridiculous if they did not involve the ruin of the people. The Georgian Government is not in a position to change these disastrous international conditions, and thus the people of Georgia, like so many other peoples, must suffer from their effects. The inhabitants of .the capital of Tiflis were hit the hardest. Until the revolution Tiflis was the political centre of the whole of the Caucasus, a territory with about ten million people. To-day it forms the capital of little Georgia, with three million inhabitants. This country by itself must sustain the 400,000 inhabitants of Tiflis. This would not have been a simple matter in a state of uninterrupted world trade, but the task assumes 47