Reassembling Society in a Nation-State: History, Language, and Identity Discourses of Belarus
Journal: Nationalities Papers
Year: 2022

Abstract The article examines the political and cultural processes of nation-building over thirty years of independence in Belarus. It argues that in becoming a nation-state Belarus has faced challenges similar to the other post-Soviet nations but has proved an exception in the choice of strategies it used to address them. The paper examines how, on the eve of independence, the nationalist elites devised policies aimed at consolidating statehood around the national revival in opposition to the S