Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan Juyin Juya Halin Rasha a 1917, Georgia ta fito a matsayin jamhuriya mai zaman kanta a ƙarƙashin kariyar Jamus. Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na I, Tarayyar Soviet ta haɗu da Georgia da ƙarfi a 1922, ta zama ɗaya daga cikin jamhuriyoyi goma sha biyar. A cikin shekarun 1980, wani motsi na 'yancin kai ya bayyana kuma ya girma cikin sauri, wanda ya haifar da rabuwa da Georgia daga Tarayyar Soviet a watan Afrilu 1991. Ga mafi yawan shekaru goma da suka biyo baya, Georgia ta Soviet ta sha wahala daga rikicin tattalin arziki, rashin zaman lafiya na siyasa, rikice-rikicen kabilanci, da yaƙe-yaƙe na rabuwa a Abkhazia da Ossetia ta Kudu. Bayan juyin juya halin Rose mara kisan kai a 2003, Georgia ta ci gaba da bin manufofin kasashen waje na Yammacin Turai; ta gabatar da jerin gyare-gyare na dimokiradiyya da tattalin arziki da nufin hadewa da Tarayyar Turai da NATO. Gabatarwar kasar zuwa Yammacin duniya ba da daɗewa ba ya haifar da mummunan dangantaka da Rasha, a wani lokaci har ma ya haifar da wani ɗan gajeren yaki
a shekara ta 2008.