LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); Politinis mitas; Baltarusija (Belarus); Žalgirio mūšis, 1410; Kolektyvinė sąmonė; Istoriografija; Kultūrinė atmintis; Slavų vienybė; Istorinė tapatybė; Political myth; Battle of Grunwald; Collective consience; Historiographie, cultural memory; Slavic unity; Historical identity.
ENThe book studies the Battle of Grunwald (1410) as a fact of collective conscience, i.e. how it lives in Belarusian historical thought and social memory in a wider sense. The author tries to reveal the circumstances in which the historic event was brought into the spotlight of public attention, the key frameworks in which it has been interpreted, as well as the reasons and methods that allowed them to penetrate the academic and public discourse of Belarusian history. The approaches practised by the history of historiography, the social sciences and the humanities that interpret the concept of collective memory set the general methodological framework for the study. The stable representations of the Battle of Grunwald and its importance that have circulated in Belarusian society for the last century are analysed from the perspective of cultural memory' (Jan Assmann) that transforms history into a myth. The main goal of our research is not to criticise the ideological content of the visions of Grunwald in Belarusian history but to deconstruct and analyse these constructs. [...]. [From the publication]