Open AccessConcepts of Belarusian History. II. "Russian World", "Litvinism", "Belarusian Civilization"
Author(s) -
Anton Krutikov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
perspektivy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-3417
DOI - 10.32726/2411-3417-2021-1-66-79
Subject(s) - civilization , historiography , slavic languages , nationalism , rhetoric , political science , ukrainian , history , classics , media studies , sociology , law , philosophy , politics , theology , linguistics
At the turn of the 1990s, Belarus received a unique chance to revive Western-Russianism as a new national idea based on the centuries-old cultural affinity of the three fraternal Slavic peoples. However, rapid changes in the historical policy of the Belarusian leadership resulted in the diffusion of nationalist concepts of the past into historical science and official rhetoric. President Lukashenko's theses about the "Belarusian civilization" were quickly reflected in “official” Belarusian historiography. The symbols of the modern Belarusian protest movement - T. Kostiushko and K. Kalinowsky were introduced into the public consciousness not by external forces, but by Belarusian textbooks.