During the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century the social and politicaldevelopments in Georgia may be characterized as a process of creation of anation state, which is generally characteristic of the modernization period. The“National Project” initiated by Georgia back in 1918-1921 in its essence was a processof state creation, which had a continuous character and was not interruptedeven in the period of Soviet Georgia. And since 1991 this process entered its next,most active stage and is still on the political agenda. It will remain long on the politicalagenda of the ruling elite, regardless of what are the ideological groundsuniting these forces.The underlying logic of the above-mentioned social and political processes hasconditioned the gradual change of the demographic picture of the country, whichcan be characterized as the process of monoethnification. And monoethnification ofthe country to the largest possible extent is a process which results in decreasingnumber of representatives of other ethnic groups in the country that automaticallyleads to weakening the potential of their counteraction. The weakened ethnic communities,in their turn, would not be able to challenge the Georgian nationalist programmewith any counter-programme.Back in 1983 E.Gellner, a prominent theorist of the nation and nationalismissues, mentioned that the perfect model of the society is when the boundaries ofnation and state coincide [1]. According to him, nationalism is a principle that impliesmatching these boundaries of political and national units. This model is regardedalso as an efficient means to prevent and settle ethnic conflicts.

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