Struggle over Identity
Abstract
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 interpretation of the interconnection between the democratization and nationalization of Belarusian society. The book describes how the ethno-symbolic nation of the Belarusian nationalists, based on the cult...
Keywords
liberalism; authoritarianism; post-communism; socialism; Belarus; bolshevism; democracy; identity; political ideologies; nationalism; capitalism; Belarusian regime; linguistic russification; Soviet UnionISBN
9786155211843, 9789639776685Publisher
Central European University PressPublisher website
http://books.openedition.org/ceup/Publication date and place
2010Classification
Peace studies & conflict resolution