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Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk ; Polska Akademia Nauk
Place of publishing: Date issued/created: Type of object: Subject and Keywords:Western Byelorussia ; Commission for the Study of Western Byelorussia ; Academy of Sciences of the BSSR ; propaganda materials ; repressions ; scientific research
Abstract:
The article is devoted to the establishment and activities of the Commission for the Study of Western Byelorussia of the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences in 1926–1937. The study of Western Byelorussia as part of the Polish state in the 1920s–1930s was one of the most important and priority problems in historical research defined by the Communist Party and Soviet authorities of the BSSR when creating research institutions. One of such institutions was the Commission for the Study of Western Byelorussia of the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences of the BSSR. Despite the fact that it functioned as a scientific academic institution, its research work was secondary to agitation and propaganda work which was its dominant form of activity. The activity of the Commission was mainly limited to the study of the national-cultural, socio-economic and religious persecution of Belarusians as a national minority in Poland. It should be noted that modern Belarusian national historiography partially adheres to the stereotypes and statements formulated by Belarusian Soviet historiography in the 1920s–1930s about Western Byelorussia as an agrarian and natural sector of the Polish economy and the comprehensive persecution of Belarusians as a national minority.
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Original in:Library of the Institute for the History of Science PAS
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