History museums in the Caucasus. Between soviet nostalgia and current regional disputes

The Stalin Museum in Gori (Georgia)| Picture: Oriol López, EUROM   By Oriol López Badell,  coordinator of the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), University of Barcelona’ Solidarity Foundation.   The region known as the South Caucasus comprises the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. All of them became independent states in 1991 with …