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DIMITRI SILAKADZE Invited lecturers

  • Dimtri Silakadze is a PhD student of history at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and is completing his dissertation on Formation and Organization of the Armed Forces in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. He is a visiting lecturer at the Ilia State University and a member of the Research Department of the National Archives of Georgia.

    Silakadze’s research interests include military history of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, as well as Georgia and Georgians in the military system of the Russian Empire and the USSR. In 2014, he was awarded a research grant by the Ministry of Defense of Georgia and the National Centre of Manuscripts. 

    Scientific interests / research interests

    • Democratic Republic of Georgia
    •  world military history
    •  military history of Georgia

    Video-lectures

    Dimitri Silakadze is scriptwriter for doc. Film “Tskhinvali 1920”

    CONTACT

    dimitrisilaqadze@gmail.com

     

     

  • Books 

    • Author. Russian-Georgian war of 1921. (100 stories) publicist-documentary esaay. Tbilisi 1921.
    • Contributor of 44 articles. Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921). Encyclopedic Dictionary. Tbilisi, 2018
    • Contributor. Noe Ramishvili. Album. Tbilisi, 2018
    • Contributor. Noe Zhordania. Album. Tbilisi, 2018
    • Author. Army Equipment in the First Georgian Republic and the People’s Guard. Tbilisi, 2017.
    • Introduction and comments. Givi Ghambashidze. Days of War. Tbilisi, 2017
    • Contributor. Album The First Georgian Republic. Tbilisi, 2015
    • Introduction and comments. Ioseb Mamatsashvili. Memories/ February-July, 1921/. Tbilisi, 2014
    • Introduction and comments. 1028 Days of Independence. Daily Chronicles of First Georgian Republic. Tbilisi, 2013
    • Introduction and comments. Nikoloz (Kolia) Chumburidze. From the Life of Soviet Georgia/Six Months of the Bolshevik Rule/ Tbilisi, 2013

    An extensive list of publications

    • Dimitri silakadze, Paata gigauri – Russian-Georgian war of 1921 and the trench N4. Georgian Source-Studies. XXII  Tbilisi 2020. Pp.128-139
    • Dimitri silakadze. The battle of Ayrum –The story of captivations of Colonel Vachnadze’s squad (Georgian-Armenian war in 1918). Scientia Scolarly Journal.  I. Tbilisi.2020 Pp.   327-341
    • Introduction and comments. Meetings reports of Military Council of the Ministry of War (Jun1919- April 1920). . Tbilisi.2021
    • Points of Convergence of Georgian and Polish Military Histories in 1918-1921. According to Previously Unknown Documents Kept in the National Archives of Georgia. Polish-Georgian Historians Commission Collected Works. Vol. 1 Warsaw 2019. Pp 109-115
    • Average Height of a Georgian and Armenian Men at the Beginning of the 20th Century according to Gendarmerie Cards. National Archives of Georgia. 2018 International Conference Proceedings. Tbilisi, 2019, 140-153
    • Impediments to the Formation of the Armed Forces in the First Georgian Republic. Collection of Papers Remembering the Democratic Republic of Georgia after 100 years – A Model for Europe? Tbilisi, 2018, 222-235.
    •  Unknown Details in Giorgi Kvinitadze’s Career during His Service in the Russian Army (1892-1917). National Archives of Georgia. 2017 International Conference Proceedings. Tbilisi, 2018, 357-365.
    •  Military Aviation of the First Democratic Republic of Georgia. International Conference Proceedings. Tbilisi 2016, 108-123.
    • Suicide for the Sake of Military Dignity. Suicide of Commander Simon Khukhunaishvili. Young Historians’ Papers. Vol. 3. Tbilisi, 2016, 88-95.
    • Declaration of the Indepedence of Georgia and Discussions on the Formation of People’s Guard in Summer 1918. History Research Papers, vol. 12. Tbilisi, 2015, 205-216.
      Материальное положение Грузинской армии перед войной С большевисткой Россией 1921 г Nowy Prometeusz Vol 7. Warshava. 2015 стр. 149-161
    • К вопросу о численности вооруженных сил Грузии перед началом войни с Советской Россией в 1921г. Кавказский Сборник. Том №8 (40). Москва 2014. Стр.229-242
    •  An Important Document about the Military-Political Situation in the Zakatala District in May 1920, vol. 2. Tbilisi, 2013
    • Unknown Facts about Kaikhosro Cholokashvili’s Military Activities. The Institute of Georgian History. Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The Faculty of the Humanities. Collection of Papers, vol. 5. Tbilisi, 293-306.
    • On the Organization, Staff Structure and the Number of Military Personnel in the People’s Guard of the First Democratic Republic of Georgia. Institute of Georgian History. The Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The Faculty of the Humanities. Collection of Papers, vol. 3. Tbilisi, 2011,334-348.
    •  Desertion in the Regular Army of the First Georgian Republic (1918-1921). The Institute of Georgian History. Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The Faculty of the Humanities. Collection of Papers, vol. 2. Tbilisi, 2011,385-394.
    •  The Osiauri Battle (The Russo-Georgian War of 1921). The Institute of Georgian History. Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The Faculty of the Humanities. Collection of Papers, vol. 1. Tbilisi, 2011-239-256.

  • Master’s Courses

    • Georgian Military System from the Later Feudal Period including the First Georgian Republic
    • Archival Practice