Belarus as "Borderland": the Impact of Geopolitical Factors on the National Identity Construction in the 2010s

Student: Makarova Anna

Supervisor: Natalia Galetkina

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2017

This article is devoted to the research of the national identity formation in Belarus through the prism of the nation-building policies for the Polish minority. The purpose of research is finding the causes of recurrent confrontation between the official authorities and the Polish minority in Belarus. In the theoretical part of the article is discussed approaches of different authors to the concept of nationalism and the adjacent terms, to the problems of nation-building process in the post-Soviet countries and in Belarus. In the empirical part there is the search for evidence to support or refute hypotheses about the causes of the confrontation between the Belarusian authorities and the ethnic Poles in Belarus.

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