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This is the list of leaders of Georgia since 1918, during the periods of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921), Soviet Georgia (1921–1991), and current Georgia. For the head of government, see President of Georgia .
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.
In semi-presidential and parliamentary systems, the head of government (i.e. executive) role is fulfilled by the listed head of government and the head of state. In one-party states , the ruling party 's leader (e.g. the General Secretary ) is usually the de facto top leader of the state, though sometimes this leader also holds the presidency ...
A number of heads of state and heads of government have taken their own lives, either while in office or after leaving office. National leaders who take their own lives while in office generally do so because their leadership is somehow threatened – for instance, by a coup or an invading army. Some have done so under compulsion
Coterminous with the present-day republic of Georgia, it was based on the traditional territory of Georgia, which had existed as a series of independent states in the Caucasus prior to the first occupation of annexation in the course of the 19th century. The Georgian SSR was formed in 1921 and subsequently incorporated in the Soviet Union in 1922.
During its period as a Soviet Socialist Republic it was ruled by the First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party including; Samson Mamulia, Lavrentiy Beria, Candide Charkviani, Vasil Mzhavanadze and Eduard Shevardnadze. [1] On 26 August 1991, by the decision of the Georgian parliament, the Communist Party was banned. [2]
List of leaders of Georgia may refer to: List of leaders of Georgia (country) List of governors of Georgia; List of colonial governors of Georgia; List of presidents of the Georgia State Senate; List of speakers of the Georgia House of Representatives; List of minority leaders of the Georgia House of Representatives
The height of the Communist Party of Georgia occurred during the Great Depression when Angelo Herndon served as the primary leading figure of the American labor movement within Georgia. Following World War II, McCarthyism and the Cold War ultimately destroyed the Georgian Communist movement by 1958. [2] The movement has since reemerged in ...