Belarusian Literature in the 1950s and 1960s
Author: Arnold Barrett McMillin
Publisher: Bohlau Verlag
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
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The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Biełarusian Literature
Author: Zina J. Gimpelevich
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2018-07-02
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 0773554157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Cold Rush Martin Breum travels through and describes the new quest for the Arctic and the tortuous ongoing diplomatic endeavours to maintain peace, while the governments involved all develop still stronger security presences.
Vasil Byka?
Author: Zina J. Gimpelevich
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2005-09-16
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0773572929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first English biography of his life and work, Zina Gimpelevich describes the conditions under which Bykau lived in the former USSR and provides a literary and political history of Belarus from 1918-2003. Based on interviews that she conducted with Bykau, she illuminates his life of as an artist and a defender of human rights. She also provides literary criticism of Bykau's work, including The Ordeal and Pack of Wolves, and discusses the psychological realism of his early novels, and his interest in existentialism.
Belarusian Literature of the Diaspora
Author: Arnold Barrett McMillin
Publisher: Centre for Russian and East European Studies
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe A to Z of Belarus
Author: Vitali Silitski
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-04-07
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1461731747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe political map of Eastern Europe changed dramatically in December 1991 when the leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine huddled together in a Bielavieza Forest retreat and decided to dissolve the 15 union republics, which composed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). One of those republics was the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR). A United Nations member since 1945, Belarus has a rich cultural heritage that is seen as a promising base for the development of a solid national identity and for real independence. It is this cultural heritage and sense of history that nourish the ongoing efforts of the nationalist minority, as well as the larger democratic opposition, to resist the regime of President Alaksandr Luka?enka who is bent on restoring ties to Russia. Thus Belarus, with its burdens of the past and potential for the future, finds itself in a struggle that will affect not only its own destiny, but also the international structure of Eastern Europe. The A to Z of Belarus—through its chronology, introductory essays, appendixes, map, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects—traces Belarus' history and provides a compass for the direction the country is heading.
Belarus - Alternative Visions
Author: Simon Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-31
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1351387758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBelarus 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.
The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture
Author: Mark Lipovetsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-04-26
Total Pages: 1081
ISBN-13: 0197508219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Contemporary Belarus
Author: Elena Korosteleva
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-27
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1135789487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a thorough overview of current developments in Belarus. It looks at historical, political, economic and social changes, and at international relations, especially relations with Russia and the European Union.
Historical Dictionary of Belarus
Author: Grigory V. Ioffe
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1538117061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBelarus is one of fifteen successor states of the former Soviet Union. It’s the only post-Soviet state that is in full of control of its territory and has no territorial conflicts with its neighbors. It’s squeezed between Russia and the European Union. Belarus had never been an independent nation prior to the Soviet Union’s disintegration and its identity is still evolving. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Belarus contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Belarus.
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
Author: Mary Zirin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 2121
ISBN-13: 131745197X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
