https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/14b8f8de-0155-4a37-aa8c-8819e55fcc51 Belarus is facing a national crisis that has been coming for many decades. How did the Eastern European country arrive to this crossroads and what are its prospects for the future? To tackle this question we will look at the history of the formation of Belarusian national identity in the Soviet era. We will examine how Soviet policies towards nationalism shifted and in turn affected Belarus' development as a young nation. Script, editing, narration, and visuals by "M" Music by Charles Tristan: https://soundcloud.com/charles-tristan Additional tracks used: Track 1: Poisoned Rose (YT Audio Library) Track 2: Midnight Prophet (YT Audio Library) Track 4: From Russia with Love (YT Audio Library) Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themarxistproject Sources: Lamont, Corliss. The Peoples of the Soviet Union. Harcourt, NY: Brace and Company, 1946. Lenin, V.I. The State and Revolution. Penguin Books, 1992. Lubachko, Ivan S. Belorussia: Under Soviet Rule, 1917--1957. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1972. Marples, David R. “History and politics in post-Soviet Belarus.” In Contemporary Belarus: Between Democracy and Dictatorship, edited by Elena A. Korosteleva, Colin W. Lawson and Rosalind J. Marsh, 21-33. London, UK: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Marx, Karl. “Critique of the Gotha Programme.” In Essential Writings of Karl Marx. St.Petersburg, FL: Red and Black Publishers, 2010. Rudling, Per Anders. “Belarus in the Lukashenka Era: National Identity and Relations with Russia.” In Europe's last frontier?: Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine between Russia and the European Union, edited by Oliver Schmidtke and Serhy Yekelchyk, 55-77. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Titarenko, Larissa G. “Globalisation, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations in Belarus/” In Ethnicity and Nationalism in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic States, edited by Christopher Williams and Thanasis D. Sfikas, 150-183. Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing, 1999. Williams, Christopher. “The National Question and Nationalism in the Former USSR, 1917-91.” In Ethnicity and Nationalism in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic States, edited by Christopher Williams and Thanasis D. Sfikas, 24-39. Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing, 1999. World Bank. Belarus: Prices, Markets, and Enterprise Reform. The World Bank, 1997. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:50:12 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/14b8f8de-0155-4a37-aa8c-8819e55fcc51 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.