BELARUSIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN INTERWAR WESTERN BELARUS IN THE REFLECTION OF MODERN FOREIGN HISTORIOGRAPHY

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Gorny Aliaksandr Siargeevich – PhD (History), Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, the Department of History of Belarus, Archeology and Special Historical Disciplines, Head of Center for Diaspora Studies and Foreign Belarusian Studies. Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (22, Ozheshko str., 230023, Grodno). E-mail: litvin.gorny@gmail.com

DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.52065/2520-6885-2023-275-2-12 (In Belarusian).

Key words: belarusian national movement, Western Belarus, interwar Poland, national processes, historiography

For citation: Gorny A. S. Belarusian national movement in interwar Western Belarus in the reflection in the reflection of modern foreign historiography. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 6, History, Philosophy, 2023, no. 2 (275), pp. 66–71. DOI: 10.52065/2520-6885-2023-275-2-12 (In Belarusian).

Abstract

Вставить сюда аннотацию на английском It is necessary to know the theoretical approaches of foreign historians in order to prepare a comprehensive study on the history of the Belarusian national movement in interwar Western Belarus. The article describes the modern achievements of foreign historical science in this direction. The author of the article examines the works of such Polish researchers as V. Slyashinsky, J. Miranovich, A. Glahouskaya, M. Maroz. It reveals their views on the political directions of the Belarusian movement, its social activity and significance for the development of general political processes in interwar Poland. He also notes the tendency of modern Polish historiography in the study of different regions of interwar Poland and national processes in them. In addition, the author examines modern Lithuanian historiography, the works of Russian researchers devoted to ethnopolitical processes in Western Belarus. The researcher describes the works of two modern English-language authors – the Swedish historian Per Anders Rudling and the Japanese historian Michihiro Yasui. In conclusion, the author comes to the conclusion that modern Polish historiography continues to repeat the previous wrong thesis about the weakness and incapacity of the Belarusian movement in Western Belarus; in Lithuanian historiography, the Belarusian factor in the study is ignored. From the history of the interwar period in Russian and English-language historiography, the Belarusian movement in Western Belarus has not yet become a separate object of study.

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