TY  - GEN
AU  - Nelly Bekus
TI  - Struggle over Identity
SN  - 9786155211843
PY  - 2010///
PB  - Central European University Press
KW  - liberalism
KW  - authoritarianism
KW  - post-communism
KW  - socialism
KW  - Belarus
KW  - bolshevism
KW  - democracy
KW  - identity
KW  - political ideologies
KW  - nationalism
KW  - capitalism
KW  - Belarusian regime
KW  - linguistic russification
KW  - Soviet Union
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Rejecting the cliché about “weak identity and underdeveloped nationalism,” Bekus argues for the co-existence of two parallel concepts of Belarusianness—the official and the alternative one—which mirrors the current state of the Belarusian people more accurately and allows for a different interpretation of the interconnection between the democratization and nationalization of Belarusian society. The book describes how the ethno-symbolic nation of the Belarusian nationalists, based on the cult
UR  - http://books.openedition.org/ceup/581
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/60161
ER  -