Belarus the last European dictatorship

A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus - from independence to 2020's contested election In 2020 Belarus made headlines around the world when protests erupted in the aftermath of a fraught presidential election. Andrew Wilson explores both Belarus's complicated road to nat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Andrew, 1961- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Haven London 2021
Edition:New edition
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1h7zmxc
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I A Belarus: A History of Crossroads
  • 1. Polatsk
  • 2. Litva
  • 3. Ruthenia
  • 4. Uniate-land
  • 5. Belarus Begins
  • 6. Belarus Begins Again: The Traumatic Twentieth Century
  • pt.II Independent Belarus
  • 7. The Building Blocks of National Identity
  • 8. Politics Either Side of Independence, 1989
  • 1994
  • 9. Building Authoritarianism: Lukashenka's First Term
  • 10. Building an Authoritarian State: Lukashenka's Second Term
  • 11. The Third Term: The Edifice Crumbles
  • 12. The Myth of the Belarusian Economic Miracle