Białoruska historiografia Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego po 1991 roku

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Baltarusijos istoriografija; Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); Šaltiniai; Belarusian historiography; Sources.

ENDuring Soviet times the period of the existence of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was considered the worst in the history of Belarus, as the Belarusian territories were considered to have been under Lithuanian and Polish occupation. A theory from the 1950s, about the origins of the old Russian [sic!] nation, became thus a powerful argument in favor of the unifi cation of the Belarusian territories with Russia. At the beginning of the 1990s the newly independent Belarus witnessed a development of the so-called “national state” conception of history which gave priority to national values and declared an approach to research without ideological and political infl uences. Th e historians of that time emphasized “the free will” aspect of the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, they considered it as the Belarusian-Lithuanian state and chose mostly research into political history. Th e political changes in Belarus in the mid-1990s were also refl ected in the opinions of the historians. Some of them returned to historical views from Soviet times, others remained on the national historical positions. It is apparent in the evaluations of the founding of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Lublin and Brest Unions, foreign policy – especially relations with the Muscovite state. Th e article points out to the main directions in research of the history of religion, culture, everyday life, gender relations, as well as major editions of sources to the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. [From the publication]