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Belarus
Prospects of a Middle Power
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2022
Summary
Belarus, a middle-sized nation with more than a thousand years of history, is not well known beyond periodic media headlines. Modern scholarly and popular literature covers only fragments from Belarus’s long history and current geopolitical, social, and cultural issues. Belarusian history in this book differs in many aspects from history and myths created by Russian scholars and propagated worldwide. The author argues for the existence of a Western-Ruthenian (Belarusian-Ukrainian) civilization as a sub-civilization of Western civilization and thus different from Eurasian civilization. With original, detailed. and critical views on Belarusian history from the ninth century to the present, it explores the latest information about Belarusian society regarding mentality, identity, religion, current elites, the Revolution of Hope 2020. It then analyzes the future prospects of Belarus based on an assessment of modern trends in human societal and political development. It provides detailed analysis of current activities of Belarusian national and ruling elites and their ideologies vis-à-vis the building of a nation-state.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-5491-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-5492-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
312
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Preface No access
Prologue No access
Maps No access
A Gallery of Prominent Belarusians Whose Contributions Supported Nation-Building No access
From Ethnos to a Nation: Belarusians in the Ninth to Nineteenth Centuries No access
Belarusian Statehood in the Twentieth Century No access
Belarusian-Ukrainian/Western-Ruthenian Civilization No access
Belarusians and Ukrainians Belong to Western Civilization No access
The Conditions for Nation-Building in Belarus in the Late Twentieth Century No access
General Information about Modern Belarus No access
National Identity and Language No access
The Mentality of Belarusian Society (Belarusianness) No access
Church and Nation No access
Theoretical Models of the Belarusian National State Construction No access
Under the “Patronage” of Russia No access
“Belarus—to Europe” No access
Neutrality by Form and Content, and Europeanism by Spirit No access
Belarusian Elites and Nation-Building Today No access
