Research Catalog

Title

Belarus--alternative visions : nation, memory and cosmopolitanism / Simon Lewis.

Author

Lewis, Simon, 1983-

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

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Details

Description

xi, 230 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Belarus 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. --

Series Statement

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 126

Uniform Title

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 126.

Subject

• National characteristics, Belarusian
• Collective memory > Belarus
• Cosmopolitanism > Belarus
• Collective memory
• Cosmopolitanism
• Historiography
• Belarus > Historiography
• Belarus

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography and index.

Call Number

JFE 19-3536

ISBN

• 9781138310469
• 1138310468
• 9781315143743 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018056633

OCLC

1077578780

Author

Lewis, Simon, 1983- author.

Title

Belarus--alternative visions : nation, memory and cosmopolitanism / Simon Lewis.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 126

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 126.

Bibliography

Includes bibliography and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Lewis, Simon, 1983- author. Belarus--alternative visions Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9781351387767 (DLC) 2018056892

Research Call Number

JFE 19-3536