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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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Bibliographic data

Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-5491-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-5492-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
312
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Table of contents

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    1. Dedication No access
    2. Contents No access
    3. Preface No access
    4. Prologue No access
    5. Maps No access
    6. A Gallery of Prominent Belarusians Whose Contributions Supported Nation-Building No access
    1. From Ethnos to a Nation: Belarusians in the Ninth to Nineteenth Centuries No access
    2. Belarusian Statehood in the Twentieth Century No access
    1. Belarusian-Ukrainian/Western-Ruthenian Civilization No access
    2. Belarusians and Ukrainians Belong to Western Civilization No access
    1. The Conditions for Nation-Building in Belarus in the Late Twentieth Century No access
    2. General Information about Modern Belarus No access
    3. National Identity and Language No access
    4. The Mentality of Belarusian Society (Belarusianness) No access
    5. Church and Nation No access
    1. Theoretical Models of the Belarusian National State Construction No access
    2. Under the “Patronage” of Russia No access
    3. “Belarus—to Europe” No access
    4. Neutrality by Form and Content, and Europeanism by Spirit No access
    5. Belarusian Elites and Nation-Building Today No access
    6. The Revolution of Hope No access
  1. Epilogue No access Pages 239 - 254
  2. Appendix A No access Pages 255 - 256
  3. Appendix B No access Pages 257 - 258
  4. Appendix C No access Pages 259 - 260
  5. Appendix D No access Pages 261 - 262
  6. Appendix E No access Pages 263 - 264
  7. Bibliography No access Pages 265 - 282
  8. Index No access Pages 283 - 310
  9. About the Author No access Pages 311 - 312

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