The Recent Belarusian Exodus Seen against the Background of Earlier Belarusian and Russian Emigrations
Journal: Białorutenistyka Białostocka
Year: 2023

In this article the recent exodus of members of the creative intelligentsia from Belarus is reviewed in loose comparison with that from Russia in the early 1980s, a period of oppressive stagnation. A further background presents the earlier emigrations from both countries due to revolution and the aftermath of war. The moving scene of destinations for displaced poets, prose writers, playwrights as well as some journalists, presents a picture of, on the one hand, generosity of the host countries a