Fragility of Belarussian national identity

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Straipsnis / Article
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Fragility of Belarussian national identity
Authors:
Sotirović, Vladislav B
In the Journal:
Vojno delo. 2018, vol. 70, iss. 8, p. 24-37
Subject Category:
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Lenkija (Poland); Lietuva (Lithuania); Rusija (Russia); Etninės grupės / Ethnic groups; Kultūrinis identitetas / Cultural identitity; Valstybė / State; Socialinė istorija / Social history.
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LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Baltarusiai; Etnogenezė; Kalba; Lenkija (Lenkijos karalystė. Kingdom of Poland. Poland); Nacionalinis tapatumas; Rytų Europos šalys (Eastern Europe states); Slavai; Tapatumas; Valstybė; Belorussians; Eastern Europe; Ethnogenesis; Identity; Language; Lithuania; National identity; Slavs; State; Baltarusija (Belarus); Rusija (Russia).

ENBelarus is a country also known as Belorussia (White Russia, Weißrussland) in Eastern Europe, which was occupied by the Polish-Lithuanian common state for centuries until it became a part of Tsarist Russia in the late 18th century. Belarus faces many identity problems, but the most important one is the ethnolinguistic challenge to separate Belarussian national feature. This research paper investigates the focal problems of Belarussian ethnolinguistic, historical, political and national identity features using the methodology of text description and analyzing some relevant academic literature and historical sources. Historical and geopolitical background of Belarussian ethnonational identity question deserves special attention in the paper, which is supported by theoretical framework for ethnic and national identity research by eminent scholars. The fundamental conclusion of the paper is that Belarussian ethnonational identity has been historically developed outside of Belarus as a product of political Russophobia and therefore it is extremely fragile among the people of Belarus today. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.5937/vojdelo1808024S
ISSN:
0042-8426; 2683-5703
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