Bibliography of Belarusian history

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This is a select bibliography of English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Belarus. A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included. Book entries have references to journal articles and reviews about them when helpful. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below. The External links section contains entries for publicly available select bibliographies from universities.

Contents

Inclusion criteria

Geographic scope of the works include the historical areas and contemporary Belarus. Works about other regions are included when they contain substantial material related to the history of Belarusa.

Included works should either be published by an academic or notable publisher, or be authored by an independent notable subject matter expert and have reviews in significant independent scholarly journals. This bibliography specifically excludes non-history related works; self-published works; magazines and newspaper articles; [lower-alpha 1] works produced as propaganda; and works produced by non-academic government entities.

Formatting and citation style

This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates; references to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to the history of Belarus are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.

If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.

When listing book titles with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.

General surveys

Regional studies

This sections contains works about Eastern Europe [lower-alpha 2] with significant content about Belarus.

Borderland studies

Period studies

Early Slavs and Belarusians

Pre-Soviet times

Soviet Byelorussia

World War II

The Holocaust

Chernobyl

Independent Belarus

Russia-Belarus Union

Topical studies

Political

Social

Violence and terror

Religion

Economics

Rural studies and agriculture

Urban studies and industry

Historiography, identity, and memory studies

Historiography

Identity and language

Memory studies

Biographies

Works below should strictly follow the guidelines for this bibliography. To avoid abuse, works here should have independent English language academic journal reviews, be published by a major independent company or organization, or reviews by major English language publications (e.g. New York Times, The Atlantic).

Primary sources

Academic journals

See also

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References

Notes

  1. Except as references to reviews.
  2. This article uses the United Nations definition for the Eastern Europe geographic region.

Citations

  1. Shlapentokh, Dmitry (2011). "Reviewed work: Struggle over Identity: The Official and the Alternative 'Belarusianness', Nelly Bekus; Belarus–A Perpetual Borderland. Russian History & Culture, Andrew Savchenko". Europe-Asia Studies. 63 (7): 1302–1304. JSTOR   41302144.
  2. Makhotina, Ekaterina (2013). "Reviewed work: Iron Curtain. The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944—1956, Anne Applebaum". The Hungarian Historical Review. 2 (3): 676–681. JSTOR   43264460.
  3. Pease, Neal (2013). "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956". The Polish Review. 58 (4): 105–108. doi:10.5406/polishreview.58.4.0105.
  4. Burke, Claudia (1996). "Reviewed work: Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe, Eva Hoffman". Current History. 95 (599): 140. JSTOR   45317552.
  5. Caldwell, Peter C. (1995). "Reviewed work: Constitution Making in Eastern Europe., A. E. Dick Howard". Slavic Review. 54 (1): 225–226. doi:10.2307/2501204. JSTOR   2501204. S2CID   164759780.
  6. Rybar, Marek (2009). "Reviewed work: The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe since 1989, Padraic Kenney". The Slavonic and East European Review. 87 (2): 387–389. doi:10.1353/see.2009.0123. JSTOR   40650387. S2CID   247622063.
  7. Lundgreen-Nielsen, Kay (2008). "Reviewed work: The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe since 1989, Padraic Kenney". The International History Review. 30 (1): 211–212. JSTOR   40110019.
  8. MacKenney, Richard (1998). "Reviewed work: The Common Roots of Europe, Bronisław Geremek, Jan Aleksandrowicz". The American Historical Review. 103 (1): 165. doi:10.2307/2650813. JSTOR   2650813.
  9. Liber, George O. (2001). "Reviewed work: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NATIONS: POLAND, UKRAINE, LITHUANIA, BELARUS, 1569-1999, Timothy Snyder". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 25 (3/4): 293–297. JSTOR   41036838.
  10. Porter, Brian (2005). "Reviewed work: The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999, Timothy Snyder". Slavic Review. 64 (1): 166–167. doi:10.2307/3650072. JSTOR   3650072. S2CID   164557521.
  11. Weeks, Theodore R. (2004). "Reviewed work: The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999, Timothy Snyder". The Russian Review. 63 (1): 160–161. JSTOR   3664710.
  12. Pfeiffer, Peter C. (2017). "Reviewed work: Europe Since 1989. A History, Philipp Ther, Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmüller". German Politics & Society. 35 (3): 104–107. JSTOR   48561501.
  13. Cary, Noel D. (2017). "Reviewed work: Europe Since 1989: A History, Philipp Ther, Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmüller". Central European History. 50 (2): 267–270. doi:10.1017/S0008938917000504. JSTOR   26291523. S2CID   148914521.
  14. Hagen, William W. (1997). "Book Reviews Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment. By Larry Wolff. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. Xiv+419. $49.50". The Journal of Modern History. 69 (2): 401–404. doi:10.1086/245527. S2CID   151827249.
  15. Kitromilides, Paschalis M. (1997). "Reviewed work: Inventing Eastern Europe. The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment, Larry Wolff; Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism 1753-1780, Franz A. J. Szabo; the Landed Estates of the Esterhazy Princes. Hungary during the Reforms of Maria Theresia and Joseph II, Rebecca Gates-Coon". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 30 (4): 456–458. doi:10.1353/ecs.1997.0033. JSTOR   30053876. S2CID   162008053.
  16. Anderson, M. S. (1997). "Reviewed work: Inventing Eastern Europe. The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment, Larry Wolff". The English Historical Review. 112 (446): 490–491. doi:10.1093/ehr/CXII.446.490. JSTOR   578260.
  17. 1 2 Rubenstein, Joshua (November 26, 2010). "The Devils' Playground (review of Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder)". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  18. 1 2 Moorhouse, Roger (November 8, 2010). "Review: Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin". History Extra. BBC. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  19. Weeks, T. R. (2022). "Review of The Tsar, the Empire, and the Nation: Dilemmas of Nationalization in Russia's Western Borderlands, 1905–1915". The Russian Review. 81 (3): 566–598. doi:10.1111/russ.12378. S2CID   248954384.
  20. Solonari (2015). "Review: The Dark Side of Nation-States: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe". Slavic Review. 74 (2): 371. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.74.2.371.
  21. Todd, Malcolm (1997). "Reviewed work: The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus, Pavel M. Dolukhanov". The Slavonic and East European Review. 75 (2): 359–360. JSTOR   4212385.
  22. Bogucki, Peter (1997). "Reviewed work: The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus., Pavel M. Dolukhanov". Slavic Review. 56 (3): 551–552. doi:10.2307/2500930. JSTOR   2500930. S2CID   164411075.
  23. Dvornik, Francis; Betts, R. R. (1957). "Review of The Slavs: Their Early History and Civilization". The Slavonic and East European Review. 35 (85): 584–587. JSTOR   4204865 . Retrieved March 12, 2021.
  24. Dvornik, Francis; MAGUIRE, ROBERT A. (1957). "Review of The Slavs. Their Early History and Civilization". The Polish Review. 2 (4): 102–104. JSTOR   25776150 . Retrieved March 12, 2021.
  25. Drozd, Andrew M.; Plokhy, Serhii (2008). "Review of The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus". The Slavic and East European Journal. 52 (2): 326–327. JSTOR   20459696 . Retrieved March 12, 2021.
  26. Plokhy, Serhii; Kaiser, Daniel H. (2007). "Review of The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus". Slavic Review. 66 (4): 749–750. JSTOR   20060402 . Retrieved March 12, 2021.
  27. Boeck, Brian J.; Plokhy, Serhii (2009). "Review of The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 39 (4): 587–588. doi:10.1162/jinh.2009.39.4.587. JSTOR   40263564. S2CID   142632446 . Retrieved March 12, 2021.
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  29. Pritsak, Omeljan; Wilson, David M. (1978). "Review of The Origin of Rus'". The Slavonic and East European Review. 56 (1): 155–156. JSTOR   4207628 . Retrieved March 12, 2021.
  30. Crisp, Olga (1963). "Book Review: Lord and Peasant in Russia by J. Blum". The Slavonic and East European Review . 41 (97): 559–561. JSTOR   4205488.
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  32. Rutland, Peter (1993). "Reviewed work: An Algebra of Soviet Power: Elite Circulation in the Belorussian Republic, 1966-86., Michael e. Urban". Slavic Review. 52 (1): 158–159. doi:10.2307/2499625. JSTOR   2499625. S2CID   164434567.
  33. Johannes Due Enstad (2015). "Review: Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus". The Slavonic and East European Review. 93 (3): 580. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.93.3.0580.
  34. Rein, Leonid (2015). "Reviewed work: Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, Waitman W. Beorn". German Studies Review. 38 (3): 686–688. doi:10.1353/gsr.2015.0109. JSTOR   24808981. S2CID   162722718.
  35. Shepherd, BEN H. (2015). "Reviewed work: Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, Waitman Wade Beorn". The English Historical Review. 130 (545): 1046–1048. doi:10.1093/ehr/cev177. JSTOR   24474594.
  36. Kühne, Thomas (2015). "Reviewed work: Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, Waitman Wade Beorn". The American Historical Review. 120 (2): 743–744. doi:10.1093/ahr/120.2.743. JSTOR   43696868.
  37. Bassler, Gerhard P. (2006). "Reviewed work: Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, David Gaunt, Paul A. Levine, Laura Palosuo". The Slavonic and East European Review. 84 (2): 364–366. doi:10.1353/see.2006.0076. JSTOR   4214301. S2CID   247621056.
  38. Reichelt, Katrin (2006). "Reviewed work: Collaboration and Resistance During the Holocaust. Belarus, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, David Gaunt, Paul A. Levine, Paula Palosuo". Journal of Baltic Studies. 37 (2): 233–236. doi:10.1080/01629770608628882. JSTOR   43212711. S2CID   147175232.
  39. Richmond, Colin (2007). "Reviewed work: Collaboration and Resistance During the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, David Gaunt, Paul A. Levine, Laura Palosuo". The English Historical Review. 122 (498): 1066–1068. doi:10.1093/ehr/cem213. JSTOR   4494015.
  40. 1 2 Arnold Mcmillin (2012). "Reviewed: The Last Dictatorship in Europe: Belarus under Lukashenko". The Slavonic and East European Review. 90 (4): 782. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.90.4.0782.
  41. Marples, David R. (2013). "Reviewed work: The last dictatorship in Europe: Belarus under Lukashenko, Brian Bennett". International Affairs. 89 (1): 217–219. JSTOR   23479367.
  42. Main, Steven J. (2013). "Reviewed work: Belarus. The Last European Dictatorship, Andrew Wilson". Europe-Asia Studies. 65 (1): 159–160. doi:10.1080/09668136.2012.730878. JSTOR   23438726. S2CID   154546358.
  43. Savchenko, Andrew (2011). "Struggle over Identity: The Official and the Alternative "Belarusianness." by Nelly Bekus. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2010. 306 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Figures. $45.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 70 (3): 723–724. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.70.3.0723. S2CID   164719423.

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