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The conceptualization of the phenomenon of Georgian collaborationism and its political identity in terms of the Second World War, revealing the theoretical and methodological approaches to political disclosure of the phenomenon of collaborationism and forms of its political identity, which are manifested in perceptions, ideas, meanings, beliefs and values is systematized.

It is ascertained that collaborationism reasons are caused not only by the war but have deeper causal motives, and well as the collaborationism phenomenon is not limited by the war period but has an impact on the future social development. The political identity of Georgian collaborationism is correlated not with the totalitarian ideology, but rather is a kind of confrontation with it, which could not be reflected in appropriate ways because of the total nature of the global military conflict within which value measurements often disappeared and gaining victory over the enemy became dominant. The severity of the conflict and the scale of such opposition result in the situation that endangers the subject-carrier of political identity.

Key words: collaborationism, political identity, national identity, tradition, Georgia, Second World War, totalitarianism, repression, captives.