ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BELARUSIAN STATE AS A DETERMINING FACTOR OF BELARUSIZATION POLICY

UDC 821.161.3«1920/1930»

Kolyada Ina Vladimirovna – PhD (History), Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, the Department of History of Belarus and Political Science. Belarusian State Technological University (13a, Sverdlova str., 220006, Minsk, Republic of Belarus).

DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.52065/2520-6885-2024-287-9.

Key words: Belarusianization, national idea, national and cultural construction, statehood, expansion, territory, self-awareness.

For citation: Kalyada I. U. Establishment of the Belarusian state as a determining factor of Belarusization policy. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 6, History, Philosophy, 2024, no. 2 (287), pp. 51–55 (In Belarusian). DOI: 10.52065/2520-6885-2024-287-9.

Abstract

The article examines the issues of the establishment of Belarusian statehood, the expansion of the territory of the BSSR, which became the determining factors of the Belarusianization policy, which was carried out in the 1920s and 1930s in Belarus. The origins of Belarusianization are in the development of the Belarusian national movement, in the program provisions of national parties, in the search for forms of nation-state construction, which took place in the clash of different views and opinions. The appearance of the Belarusian periodical press, the activities of the government of the BNR, and the proclamation of the BSSR also played a role here. In the 1920s, Belarusianization acquired the status of state policy. With the increase in the number of nationally conscious intelligentsia, qualitative shifts in the further deepening of their self-awareness were observed. The diverse intelligentsia becomes the bearer of democratic ideas combined with the ideas of national revival. The role of the intelligentsia, fully committed to the national idea, is extremely prominent in the formation of the ethnic self-consciousness of ordinary people. Belarusianization awakened wide circles of Bedarus population to an active national life. In less than a decade, national education and research institutions, national theater and cinema were created; a generation of young Belarusian writers and artists appeared; the history and culture of the Belarusian people were widely studied.

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