Struggle over Identity

• Main Author: Nelly Bekus (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Central European University Press 2010
• Subjects: liberalism; authoritarianism; post-communism; socialism; Belarus; bolshevism; democracy; identity; political ideologies; nationalism; capitalism; Belarusian regime; linguistic russification; Soviet Union
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Rejecting the cliché about "weak identity and underdeveloped nationalism," Bekus argues for the co-existence of two parallel concepts of Belarusianness-the official and the alternative one-which mirrors the current state of the Belarusian people more accurately and allows for a different...