- Geboren 1986 in Sochumi
- Bachelor-Abschluss in Geschichte an der Staatlichen Universität Ivane Javakhishvili in Tiflis
- 2010: Master in Russistik an der gleichen Institution
- 2011–2013: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für die Entwicklung der Informationsfreiheit (IDFI)
- 2013–2014: Gastwissenschaftler an der Universität Warschau, Fakultät für Orientalistik, Zentrum für Russland- und Osteuropastudien
- 2015–2020: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SovLab)
- 2014–2016: Dozent an Georgian-American University
- 2021–2022: Dozent an der Ilia State University
- Seit 2016: Gastdozent an der Kaukasus-Universität
- Regelmäßige Veröffentlichung von Blogs und Artikeln in verschiedenen Medien
Forschungsgebiete
- Geschichte der Sowjetunion
- Nationalismus
- Stalinismus
- Ethnische Konflikte
Publikationen
Herausgeberschaften
- mit N. Nijaradze, Sami peri – mts’vane, tst’eli, lurji: Samxret kavkasia industriuli revoluciidan sabwota okupaciamde [Drei Farben – Grün, Rot, Blau: Der Kaukasus von der industriellen Revolution bis zur sowjetischen Okkupation], Tbilissi 2023.
- Georgian football under Stalin. Butsebi da Tkavis Cheqma. Tbilisis Dinamo Chekistebis klubidan erovnul simbolomde (1925-1953), 2021. (In Georgian)
- mit I. Khvadagiani, Vademecum Georgia: A guide to archives, libraries, museums and memorial sites. Commissioned by Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur. Berlin 2018.
- mit Mark Junge / Maria Braukhoff , Bolshevik Order in Georgia. Documents about great terror in Georgia II. Tbilisi 2015.
Beiträge
- The Citizen, the Letter, and the Archives of Soviet Georgia, 06.04.2026, https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2519.
- Special podcast episode on Historians’ Day, 17.12.2025, https://gab.
- hypotheses.org/17999.
- chekisti ahot aslanovi [Employee of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs Ashot Aslanov], in: Indigo Magazine, 13.07.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXE1ix8rFY.
- chekisti Varlam Odisharia [Employee of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs Varlam Odisharia], in: Indigo Magazine, 07.07.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl4uefQV3Bw.
- chekisti aleqsandre xazani [Employee of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs Alexsander Khazan], in: Indigo Magazine, 21.06.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16_0rwVH7ZU.
- baTumeli moswavleebis proklamaciebi [Proclamations from students of Batumi], in: Indigo Magazine, 15.06.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Skxubo4XN4.
- mokle meoce saukune da saqarTvelo [The Short XXth century and Georgia], in: Indigo Magazine, 24.05.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmAJIMTJWzA.
- me-2 msoflio omis qarTuli mexsireba [memory of WWII in Georgia], in: Indigo Magazine, 18.05.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzwDqLxYW7k.
- Germaneli tkveebi saqarTveloSi [German POW in Georgia], in: Indigo Magazine, 14.05.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkzIP31jx-g
- Qartveli tkveebi nazistur germaniashi [Georgian POW in Nazi Germany], in: Indigo Magazine, 04.05.2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIgRVOaBPm0
- chekistebi da borotebis banaluroba [Chekists and Banality of the Evil], in: Indigo Magazine, 26.04.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6OX0A_T2bo
- Avtobiografiebi sabWoTa kavSirSi [Autobiographies in the Soviet Union], in: Indigo Magazine, 19.04.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbU46dB_4pE
- Ominde Kordzaias svanuri ambebi [Memories of Ominde Kordzaia about Svaneti], in: Indigo Magazine, 12.04.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=596VPr8cMDU
- Niko buris tavgadasavali [Adventure of Niko Boer], in: Indigo Magazine, 06.04.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9qs6R7IEtY
- Sabchota Terori da Chekistebi [Soviet terror and chekists], in: Indigo Magazine, 29.03.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwtvQdcjDg
- kriminali da politika [criminal and politics], in: Indigo Magazine, 15.03.2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CtzPyLuHf4
- Globaluri kavsirebi. Germanelebi saqartvelosi (1817-1941), in: Lali Kakhidze (ed.), Global engagements. German Settlers in Georgia (1817-1941), Tbilisi 2024, 19-21.
- History of Abkhazia in brief: from the Russian Empire to the collapse of the Soviet Union, in: I. Abramashvili / A. Brisku / N. Kalandarishvili / T. Sharashenidze (eds.), In Search of Peace. Vicious circle of Post-Soviet Conflict Rethinking Ways of Transformation. Tbilisi 2024, 79-95.
- Gadasaxleba [Deportation from the Soviet Georgia], in: Indigo Magazine, 09.11.2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LADmOeEV03o&t=4s.
- ricxvebi, omi da manipulacia [Figurs, War and Manipulation], in: Indigo Magazine, 05.10.2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv7Y2u4JKf0.
- Ertel Afxazeshi [Once upon a time in Abkhazia], in: Netgazeti, 13.11.2023, https://netgazeti.ge/news/696984/.
- Bebiis gadasveneba Galshi [Reburial ceremony of grandmother in Gali], in: Netgazeti, 12.07.2023, https://netgazeti.ge/news/679505/.
- Saqartvelos istoriis pirveli Saxelmzrvanelo [First history textbook of the Georgian History], in: Indigo Magazine, 12.06.2023, https://youtube.com/watch?v=XsaLOfh_QGc.
- mit T. K. Blauvelt, Deciphering the Stalinist Perpetrators. The Case of Georgian NKVD Investigators Khazan, Savitskii, and Krimian, in: M. David-Fox (ed.): The Secret Police and the Soviet System. New Archival Investigations, Pittsburgh 2023, 152-185.
- Pornography in the Shoe Factory Lavatory and NKVD Interpreter’s trial. Reconstructions of History, 2020, №3, 195-201 (In Georgian)
- (mit P. Kabachnik, A. Gugushvili, A Personality Cult’s Rise and Fall: Three Cities after Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” and the Stalin Monument that Never Was, in: Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia 4, (2015) 2, 309-326.
