Belarus Alternative Visions

Author : Simon M. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351387750

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Belarus - Alternative Visions by Simon M. Lewis Pdf

Belarus is often regarded as "Europe’s last dictatorship", a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However, a key factor in determining Belarus’s development, including its likely future development, is its own sense of identity. This book explores the complex debates and competing narratives surrounding Belarus’s identity, revealing a far more diverse picture than the widely accepted monolithic post-Soviet nation. It examines in a range of media including historiography, films and literature how visions of Belarus as a nation have been constructed from the nineteenth century to the present day. It outlines a complex picture of contested myths – the "peasant nation" of the nineteenth century, the devoted Soviet republic of the late twentieth century and the revisionist Belarusian nationalism of the present. The author shows that Belarus is characterized by immense cultural, linguistic and ethnic polyphony, both in its lived history and in its cultural imaginary. The book analyses important examples of writing in and about Belarus, in Belarusian, Polish and Russian, revealing how different modes of rooted cosmopolitanism have been articulated.

Author : Stanley Bill,Simon Lewis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822990192

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Multicultural Commonwealth by Stanley Bill,Simon Lewis Pdf

An Innovative Study on Historical Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) was once the largest country in Europe—a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups. Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmaking in its descendent modern-day states, but also a source of contention between those with different understandings of its history. Multicultural Commonwealth brings together the expertise of world-renowned scholars in a range of disciplines to present perspectives on both the Commonwealth’s historical diversity and the memory of this diversity. With cutting-edge research on the intermeshed histories and memories of different ethnic and religious groups of the Commonwealth, this volume asks how various contemporary conceptions of multiculturalism can be applied to the region through a critical lens that also seeks to understand the past on its own terms.

Author : Elena A. Korosteleva,Irina Petrova,Anastasiia Kudlenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000883169

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Belarus in the Twenty-First Century by Elena A. Korosteleva,Irina Petrova,Anastasiia Kudlenko Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores how there has been an upswelling of popular support for the idea that Belarus must change. It highlights how the old regime, aiming to retain the Soviet legacy, reluctant to reform, presiding over worsening economic conditions and refusing to take measures to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, has been confronted by increasing bottom-up social mobilisation which demands a transformation of state-society relations and a new sense of Belarusian peoplehood. The book outlines how the current situation has developed, considers how the present demands for change are deep seated and long brewing trends, and reveals much detail about many aspects of the growing societal mobilisation. Overall, the book demonstrates that, although the old regime remains in power, Belarusian society has changed fundamentally, thereby bringing great hope that change will eventually come about.

Author : Julie Fedor,Markku Kangaspuro,Jussi Lassila,Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319665238

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War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus by Julie Fedor,Markku Kangaspuro,Jussi Lassila,Tatiana Zhurzhenko Pdf

This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – the epicentre of Soviet war suffering, and the heartland of the Soviet war myth. The collection gives insight into the persistence of the Soviet commemorative culture and the myth of the Great Patriotic War in the post-Soviet space. It also demonstrates that for geopolitical, cultural, and historical reasons the political uses of World War II differ significantly across Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, with important ramifications for future developments in the region and beyond. The chapters 'Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus', ‘From the Trauma of Stalinism to the Triumph of Stalingrad: The Toponymic Dispute over Volgograd’ and 'The “Partisan Republic”: Colonial Myths and Memory Wars in Belarus' are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. The chapter 'Memory, Kinship, and Mobilization of the Dead: The Russian State and the “Immortal Regiment” Movement' is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author : Félix Krawatzek,Nina Friess
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110733501

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Youth and Memory in Europe by Félix Krawatzek,Nina Friess Pdf

This volume contends that young individuals across Europe relate to their country’s history in complex and often ambivalent ways. It pays attention to how both formal education and broader culture communicate ideas about the past, and how young people respond to these ideas. The studies collected in this volume show that such ideas about the past are central to the formation of the group identities of nations, social movements, or religious groups. Young people express received historical narratives in new, potentially subversive, ways. As young people tend to be more mobile and ready to interrogate their own roots than later generations, they selectively privilege certain aspects of their identities and their identification with their family or nation while neglecting others. This collection aims to correct the popular misperception that young people are indifferent towards history and prove instead that historical narratives are constitutive to their individual identities and their sense of belonging to something broader than themselves.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on European Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822038349569

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Crackdown in Belarus by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on European Affairs Pdf

Author : Ralf Remshardt,Aneta Mancewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000913644

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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance by Ralf Remshardt,Aneta Mancewicz Pdf

This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters, this book’s first part contains a comprehensive listing of European nations, the second part charts responses to thematic complexes that define current European performance, and the third section gathers a series of case studies that explore the contribution of some of Europe’s foremost theatre makers. Rather than rehearsing rote knowledge, this is a collection of carefully curated, interpretive accounts from an international roster of scholars and practitioners. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance gives undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and practitioners an indispensable reference resource that can be used broadly across curricula.

Author : Mark Lipovetsky,Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages Mark Lipovetsky,Maria Engström,Professor of Russian at the Department of Modern Languages Maria Engström,Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies Tomás Glanc,Tomás Glanc,Coordinator for Russian Language Studies Ilja Kukuj,Ilja Kukuj,Klavdia Smola,Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures Klavdia Smola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197508213

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The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture by Mark Lipovetsky,Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages Mark Lipovetsky,Maria Engström,Professor of Russian at the Department of Modern Languages Maria Engström,Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies Tomás Glanc,Tomás Glanc,Coordinator for Russian Language Studies Ilja Kukuj,Ilja Kukuj,Klavdia Smola,Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures Klavdia Smola Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture is the first comprehensive English-language volume covering a history of Soviet artistic and literary underground. In forty-four chapters, an international group of leading scholars introduce readers to a web of subcultures within the underground, highlight the culture achievements of the Soviet underground from the 1930s through the 1980s, emphasize the multimediality of this cultural phenomenon, and situate the study of underground literary texts and artworks into their broader theoretical, ideological, and political contexts.

Author : Andrey Makarychev,Alexandra Yatsyk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137490957

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Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia by Andrey Makarychev,Alexandra Yatsyk Pdf

The edited volume explains why sport mega events can be discussed from the viewpoint of politics and power, and what this discussion can add to the existing scholarship on political regimes, international norms, national identities, and cultural narratives. The book collects case studies written by insiders from different countries of post-Soviet Eurasia that have recently hosted— or intend to host in the future —sporting events of a global scale. Contributing authors discuss cultural, political, and economic strategies of host governments, examining them from the vantage point of an increasing shift of the global sport industry to non-Western countries. Mega-events often draw domestic lines of cultural and social exclusion within host’s polities. It is these ruptures and gaps this volume explores, contributing to a better understanding of the intricate interconnections between global institutions and national identities.

Author : Nelly Bekus-Gonczarowa,Mirella Korzeniewska-Wiszniewska,Michał Wawrzonek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443831550

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Orthodoxy Versus Post-Communism? by Nelly Bekus-Gonczarowa,Mirella Korzeniewska-Wiszniewska,Michał Wawrzonek Pdf

Post-communism has determined the social and political reality in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe for the last 25 years. A characteristic phenomenon during this time is a religious revival in the societies that were subject to intense atheization under the conditions of communist totalitarianism. This process can be observed in Ukraine, Belarus and Serbia. Undoubtedly, in all three cases, the Orthodox faith and the institutions that represent it have become an important element of the political culture. This book analyses the influence of Orthodoxy on political behaviours, values and judgments, looking particularly at such topics as the legacy of communism, shared attitudes towards the “West,” the European Union, democracy, and the ways of conceptualising post-communist Ukrainian, Belarussian and Serbian cultural and national identity. The research here explores such events and problems as the “Euromaidan” and the development of a civic society in Ukraine, the process of integration of Serbia into the EU, the perspectives of stability for the regime in Belarus, and the future of efforts for reintegration of post-Soviet space under the hegemony of Moscow.

Author : Jan Dr. Fellerer,Robert Pyrah,Marius Turda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000497274

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Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe by Jan Dr. Fellerer,Robert Pyrah,Marius Turda Pdf

This volume addresses the question of ‘identity’ in East-Central Europe. It engages with a specific definition of ‘sub-cultures’ over the period from c. 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways in which the term can be used with the purpose of understanding identities that do not conform to the fixed, standard categories imposed from the top down, such as ‘ethnic group’, ‘majority’ or ‘minority’. Instead, a ‘sub-culture’ is an identity that sits between these categories. It may blend languages, e.g. dialect forms, cultural practices, ethnic and social identifications, or religious affiliations as well as concepts of race and biology that, similarly, sit outside national projects.

Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000043068784

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"Belarus, Back in the U.S.S.R.?" by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Pdf

Author : Nelly Bekus
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789639776685

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Struggle Over Identity by Nelly Bekus Pdf

Rejecting the cliché about “weak identity and underdeveloped nationalism,” Bekus argues for the co-existence of two parallel concepts of Belarusianness—the official and the alternative one—which mirrors the current state of the Belarusian people more accurately and allows for a different interpretation of the interconnection between the democratization and nationalization of Belarusian society. The book describes how the ethno-symbolic nation of the Belarusian nationalists, based on the cultural capital of the Golden Age of the Belarusian past (17th century) competes with the “nation” institutionalized and reified by the numerous civic rituals and social practices under the auspices of the actual Belarusian state. Comparing the two concepts not only provides understanding of the logic that dominates Belarusian society’s self-description models, but also enables us to evaluate the chances of alternative Belarusianness to win this unequal struggle over identity.

Author : Simon Lewis,Jeffrey Olick,Joanna Wawrzyniak,Malgorzata Pakier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030937058

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Regions of Memory by Simon Lewis,Jeffrey Olick,Joanna Wawrzyniak,Malgorzata Pakier Pdf

“Regions of memory” are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field of possible comparisons in memory studies, studying a variety of global memory regions in parallel. Moreover, it reveals lesser-known vectors and mechanisms of memory travel, such as across Cold War battle lines, across the Indian Ocean, or between Southeast Asia and western Europe. Chapters 1 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Dražen Cepić
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429840104

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Class Cultures in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe by Dražen Cepić Pdf

This book investigates the extent to which social class has changed in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. Based on extensive original research, the book discusses how ideas about class are viewed by both working class and middle class people. The book examines how such people’s social identities are shaped by various factors including economic success, culture and friendship networks. The present class situation in Eastern Europe is contrasted to what prevailed in Communist times, when societies were officially classless, but nevertheless had Communist party elites.