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I͡Ustit͡sii͡a Belarusi = : I͡Ustytsyi͡a Belarusi.
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ISSN: 1729374X Year: 1998 Publisher: Minsk : Ministerstvo i͡ustit͡sii Respubliki Belarusʹ

Independent Belarus : domestic determinants, regional dynamics, and implications for the West
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ISBN: 0916458946 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) Harvard university press


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Журнал Белорусского государственного университета: История
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ISSN: 26174006 25206338


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Атлас гісторыі Беларусі : ад старажытнасці да нашых дзëн
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ISBN: 9851102903 9789851102903 Year: 2004 Publisher: Мінск Беларуская энцыклапедыя


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Belarus : prices, markets, and enterprise reform.
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ISBN: 1280008997 9786610008995 0585228604 Year: 1997 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,


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The Journal of Byelorussian studies.
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ISSN: 20526512 Year: 1965 Publisher: London, the United Kingdom : Leiden, the Netherlands : [Anglo-Byelorussian Society] Koninklijke Brill NV


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Jewish Life in Belarus
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ISBN: 9633860261 9789633860267 9789633860250 9633860253 Year: 2014 Publisher: Budapest New York

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Jewish life in Belarus after World War II was an inaccessible subject - officially regarded as being completely non-existent - and in the ideological atmosphere of the time research into the subject was impossible. Jewish community life had been wiped out by the Nazis, and its unreasonable attempt to come back to life was given short shrift by the communists. For more than half a century the truth about Jewish life during this period was sealed in archives to which researchers had no access. The Jews of Belarus preferred to keep silent rather than expose themselves to the spleen of the authorities. Although the fate of Belarusian Jews before and during the war has lately been amply studied, this book is one of the first attempts to study Jewish life in Belarus during the last decade of Stalin's rule. In addition to archival materials, the present research is based on data collected from a questionnaire submitted to Jews who had been residents of Belarus and are now citizens of Israel, as well as information from periodicals, collections of documents, statistical reports and monographs.


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The rise and fall of Belarusian nationalism, 1906-1931
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ISBN: 0822979586 9780822979586 9780822963080 0822963086 Year: 2015 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh Press

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"Modern Belarusian nationalism emerged in the early twentieth century during a dramatic period that included a mass exodus, multiple occupations, seven years of warfare, and the partition of the Belarusian lands. In this original history, Per Anders Rudling traces the evolution of modern Belarusian nationalism from its origins in late imperial Russia to the early 1930s. The revolution of 1905 opened a window of opportunity, and debates swirled around definitions of ethnic, racial, or cultural belonging. By March of 1918, a small group of nationalists had declared the formation of a Belarusian People's Republic (BNR), with territories based on ethnographic claims. Less than a year later, the Soviets claimed roughly the same area for a Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR). Belarusian statehood was declared no less than six times between 1918 and 1920. In 1921, the treaty of Riga officially divided the Belarusian lands between Poland and the Soviet Union. Polish authorities subjected Western Belarus to policies of assimilation, alienating much of the population. At the same time, the Soviet establishment of Belarusian-language cultural and educational institutions in Eastern Belarus stimulated national activism in Western Belarus. Sporadic partisan warfare against Polish authorities occurred until the mid-1920s, with Lithuanian and Soviet support. On both sides of the border, Belarusian activists engaged in a process of mythmaking and national mobilization. By 1926, Belarusian political activism had peaked, but then waned when coups d'etats brought authoritarian rule to Poland and Lithuania. The year 1927 saw a crackdown on the Western Belarusian national movement, and in Eastern Belarus, Stalin's consolidation of power led to a brutal transformation of society and the uprooting of Belarusian national communists. As a small group of elites, Belarusian nationalists had been dependent on German, Lithuanian, Polish, and Soviet sponsors since 1915. The geopolitical rivalry provided opportunities, but also liabilities. After 1926, maneuvering this complex and progressively hostile landscape became difficult. Support from Kaunas and Moscow for the Western Belarusian nationalists attracted the interest of the Polish authorities, and the increasingly autonomous republican institutions in Minsk became a concern for the central government in the Kremlin. As Rudling shows, Belarus was a historic battleground that served as a political tool, borderland, and buffer zone between greater powers. Nationalism arrived late, was limited to a relatively small elite, and was suppressed in its early stages. The tumultuous process, however, established the idea of Belarusian statehood, left behind a modern foundation myth, and bequeathed the institutional framework of a proto-state, all of which resurfaced as building blocks for national consolidation when Belarus gained independence in 1991"--

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