Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship

Andrew Wilson

Published by Yale University Press 2021

Belarus

The Last European Dictatorship

Andrew Wilson

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300260878

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About this book

A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus - from independence to 2020’s contested election

In 2020 Belarus made headlines around the world when protests erupted in the aftermath of a fraught presidential election. Andrew Wilson explores both Belarus’s complicated road to nationhood and its politics and economics since it gained independence in 1991. Two new chapters reveal the extent of Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s grip on power, the growth of the opposition movement and the violent crackdown that followed the vote. Wilson also examines the prospects for Europe as a whole of either Lukashenka’s downfall or his survival with Russian support.

“Andrew Wilson has done all students of European politics a great service by making the history of Belarus comprehensible and by showing how the future of Belarus might be different than its present.”—Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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Andrew Wilson is professor in Ukrainian studies at University College London and a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation and Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations and Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Pictures Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction to the New Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	xxii
Part I. Belarus: A History of Crossroads
1 Polatsk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Litva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3 Ruthenia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4 Uniate-land Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
5 Belarus Begins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
6 Belarus Begins Again: The Traumatic Twentieth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Part II. Independent Belarus
7 The Building Blocks of National Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8 Politics Either Side of Independence, 1989–1994 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
9 Building Authoritarianism: Lukashenka’s First Term Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
10 Building an Authoritarian State: Lukashenka’s Second Term Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
11 The Third Term: The Edifice Crumbles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
12 The Myth of the Belarusian Economic Miracle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
13 The 2010s: Lukashenka’s Juggling Act Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
14 The Revolution Without a Name Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Conclusions: Lukashenka’s Rise and Fall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
Appendix: The Belarusian Economy Since Independence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350

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Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Edition: New Edition
Pages
- Main content: 384
Illustrations
- Other: 16 b-w illus.

eBook

Published: April 19, 2021
ISBN: 9780300260878