Zviad Gamsakhurdia
1st President of Georgia (1991–92)
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Georgia's first democratically elected president, swept to power with 87% of the vote in 1991, then overthrown by former allies within a year and found dead in hiding under circumstances that remain uninvestigated three decades later.
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Zviad Gamsakhurdia spent his youth in the Soviet dissident movement, arrested and imprisoned repeatedly for his Georgian nationalism and human rights work, co-founding the Georgian Helsinki Group to document abuses. He organized pro-independence protests through the 1980s; after one was crushed by the Soviet Army in 1989, underground opposition groups coalesced around him into the Round Table—Free Georgia coalition, which defeated the Communist Party in the 1990 elections. His landslide presidential victory the following May crumbled quickly: significant opposition from urban intelligentsia, f…
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