Europe's Last Dictatorship: The Roots and Perspectives of Authoritarianism in ‘White Russia’

Marples, David R.

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“…The location of Belarusian territory within the GDL and Polish‐Lithuanian Commonwealth and not the Russian empire (prior to the 1770s) was considered significant as an indicator of sovereignty and early democratic leanings. These elites viewed Russia's cultural dominance over Belarus in the Tsarist and Soviet era as a force that prevented the Belarusian people from developing their own genuine national identity; as such, they advocated minimising the influence of Russia over Belarus in the post‐Soviet era, both in terms of culture and politics, along with a ‘return to Europe’ (Marples ).…”

Section: The Ambiguities Of the Gdl Legacymentioning

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“…This discourse is grounded in both tsarist‐ and Soviet‐era assertions of the ethnolinguistic brotherhood of Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians. This, along with the shared memory of the Great Patriotic War, forms the foundation for a version of national identity that turns eastward and displays pan‐Slavic tendencies of the Russian intellectual variety, with Russia as the big brother to the near abroad Slavs (Ioffe , ; Marples ; Sahm ). The Creole version marries together limited aspects of both of the versions above: Belarusians are shaped by their desire for sovereignty, memory of the Great Patriotic War and its sacrifices, and ties to the territory of Belarus, characterised by tuteishaść [localness] (Ioffe ; Pershai ).…”

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Small state imperialism: the place of empire in contemporary nationalist discourse

Fabrykant

Buhr

2015

Nations and Nationalism

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Many modern European nations can trace their heritage back to one of the large multinational empires that once encompassed much of the European landscape, and nationalising elites often refer back to their place in these empires for the materials upon which their nation was purportedly built. In this article we examine some Belarusian nationalising elites and their references to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in order to demonstrate a recent trend in East European small‐state national identity construction, which we refer to as ‘small state imperialism.’ Small state imperialism exhibits realist characteristics and paints the small nation's place in empires of the past as privileged and aggressive, and in this way deviates from the oppressed but morally superior image one typically expects of a small nation. This interpretation is not limited to Belarus; in a number of East European states a similar imperialist turn has taken root in nationalist discourses.

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Small state imperialism: the place of empire in contemporary nationalist discourse

Fabrykant

Buhr

2015

Nations and Nationalism

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“…The limited options of such an interpretation are surely self-evident." 63 Obviously, it matters who is at the helm of power. However, it follows from what has been discussed in this article that the culture wars in Belarus will most likely intensify when Lukashenka is gone.…”

Section: East European Politics and Societiesmentioning

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Culture Wars, Soul-Searching, and Belarusian Identity

Ioffe¹

2007

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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Attaching political labels to a situation whose roots transcend politics constitutes a critical weakness of Western policies vis-à-vis Belarus. The contemporary nationalist discourse in Belarus allows one to discern three “national projects,” each being a corpus of ideas about Belarus “the way it should be”: (1) Nativist/pro-European, (2) Muscovite liberal, and (3) Creole. While the projects' nametags are debatable, the trichotomy is a useful abstraction, as it reflects the lines of force in the “magnetic field” of Belarusian nationalism. The article analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each project, cultural wars between them, the role of a civilizational fault line that runs across Belarus and the attendant geopolitical divisions that underlie multiplicity of national projects. The idea is expressed of a desirable consensus based on the most viable aspects of the national projects.

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“…The chapter analyses employee voice in Belarus, one of the economies of the post-Soviet 'transitional periphery' (Wood and Demirbag, 2015). Research on employee voice and worker representation in Belarus has been scarce due to its political sensitivity to the government of 'the last dictatorship in Europe' (Marples, 2005;Wilson, 2011;Babaev, 2013). Shedding light on these hushed up areas of labour relations helps understanding the social agreement in the country.…”

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confidence: 99%