The soviet historiography completely ignored the achievements of the founding fathers and political leaders of the First Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921) and disguised it with false narratives. For modern Georgia, as the legal successor of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, it is extremely important to appropriately appraise and present the recent history based on European values and political ideas.
The texts of Georgian and European socialists collected in the edition published with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation introduce Georgian readers - historians, researchers of the history of political ideas, ethnic minorities and a wider audience interested in the issue - to the views of such progressive authors as Otto Bauer, Jean Jaures, Noe Jordania, Akaki Chkhenkeli, Irakli (Kaki) Tsereteli, Ernest Renan and Khariton Chavichvili, whose memoirs, presented in the second volume of the edition, were published for the first time in Georgian language and demonstrate the transitional period from the fall of Tsarist Russia to the revolution, as well as the life and work of the Georgian and Russian emigrants in Geneva from the viewpoint of the author.