“I only do it to stay alive”. Development of the Narrative of “Unification of the Western Lands of Ukraine and Belarus with the Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet Republics” in Soviet Historical Propaganda.
Journal: AREI
Year: 2023

The article analyses selected aspects of the formation of the historical propaganda narrative of the unification of the lands of Western Ukraine with the Ukrainian SSR and of Western Belarus with the Belarusian SSR as well as the participation of individual historians deliberately involved or for various reasons forced to take part in developing the academic justification for the change in borders. The knowledge and authority of scholars often originating from the pre-revolutionary school were n