B4 - White Russification and Authoritarianism Belarus, T. Bohn

B4 - White Russification and Sovietisation. Belarus between Polish-Russian Tensions 1905-2015

Key Questions

Which role did geopoltics, the experience of catastrophe and modernisation play in nation-building and the system of rule in society?

Why were interwar Bolsheviks interested in a multicultural capital city for the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic?

How did non-Russian ‘minorities‘ circumvent social engineering and which conclusions did Bolsheviks draw afterwards?

Objectives

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Project Heads

Director: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bohn

Doctoral Candidate: Mark Berman, M.A.