Our glorious past: Lukashenka's Belarus and the Great Patriotic War
In: Soviet and post-soviet politics and society, v. 124
Abstract
This timely book examines how the regime of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka has used the 'Great Patriotic War' (1941-45) as a key element in state and identity formation in Belarus. The campaign was discernible from 2003 and intensified after a rift with Russia that led to a re-examination of the earlier policy of close political and economic partnership. David R. Marples focuses in particular on the years 2009 and 2010, which commemorated two 65th anniversaries: the liberation of Minsk (3 July 1944) and the end of World War II in Europe (9 May 1945). Using a variety of sources, this unique bo.
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Themen
Sprachen
Englisch
Verlag
Ibidem-Verlag
ISBN
9783838266749, 3838266749, 9783838206752, 3838206754
Seiten
xxi, 403
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