Since coming to power in 1994, Belarusian president Aliaksandr Lukashenka has made
considerable efforts to consolidate the young republic. Two main periods can be identified …

Belarus is often regarded as" Europe's last dictatorship", a sort-of fossilized leftover from the
Soviet Union. However, a key factor in determining Belarus's development, including its …

This chapter combines trauma theory and postcolonial theory in the study of memory in post-
war and post-Soviet Belarus. It argues that the Soviet myth of Belarus as the “Partisan …

In many European countries, disparities have grown between history and the memory of the
Holocaust. Debates on Polish–Jewish relations during the Holocaust and empirical studies …

During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied
Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the …

Holocaust Education in Lithuania is based on a six-year, multi-sited ethnographic research
project that was conducted to analyze the effects of the controversial policies of Holocaust …

The article addresses the emerging memorial spaces on the fault lines of the post-Soviet
and Western memorial cultures. Taking as a case study the Memorial Complex in …

The remote location of Beshankovichy's mass grave for Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide
reflects the exclusion of local Jews during the German occupation of Soviet territories and …

This article examines the wartime fate of the Jews in Belarus as it is represented in Svetlana
Alexievich's 'documentary fiction'. It asks whether the Jewish experience, as reported by …

В статье рассматривается теория травмы и постколониальная теория применительно
к изучению памяти (и антипамяти) в послевоенной и постсоветской Беларуси. Автор …