Struggle over Identity : The Official and the Alternative "Belarusianness" / / Nelly Bekus.

• VerfasserIn: Bekus, Nelly,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest, Hungary: : Central European University Press,, 2010.; ©2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)

Describes how the ethno-symbolic nation of the Belarusian nationalists, based on the cultural capital of the Golden Age of the Belarusian past (17th century) competes with the nation - institutionalized and reified by the numerous civic rituals and social practices under the auspices of the actual B...

Table of Contents

• pt. 1. Nation in theory
• Nation-formation strategies in contemporary nation-studies
• State and nation
• Nationalism, capitalism, liberalism : the East European perspective
• Nationalism and socialism : the Soviet case 41
• pt. 2. The rise and development of the Belarusian national idea
• The first Belarusian nationalist movement : between national and class interests
• Byelorussian Republic within the Soviet state
• Post-Soviet conditions for independence
• pt. 3. Belarusian post-communism
• The election of the first Belarusian president as a mirror of Belarusian preferences
• "Labels" of the Belarusian regime
• "Triple transformation" and Belarus
• Prerequisites of democratization and authoritarianism in Belarus
• pt. 4. Arguments and paradoxes of weak Belarusian identity
• Belarus as an example of national and democratic failure
• The Russian factor in Belarusian self-perception
• The paradox of "national pride"
• Paradoxes of political and linguistic Russification
• Lack of religious basis for national unity
• pt. 5. The struggle over identity
• Two ideas of "Belarusianness"
• Belarusian-specific nature of the public sphere : "invisible wall"
• Belarusian history : the alternative and official historical narrations
• Political discourses of the alternative Belarusianness
• National ideology of the Belarusian state as a political articulation of official Belarusianness
• pt. 6. Cultural manifestation versus social reification
• Two approaches to the politics of identity
• Belaruski globus : an encyclopedia of what existed before communism
• The Belarusian National Film Misterium occupation : distancing themselves from Soviets and Russians
• The "Free theater" or the alternative Belarusianness on stage
• Independent rock music : critical reflection and protest
• Medieval reenactors : a manifestation of Belarus's European history
• The official politics of identity : social reification strategy.