title: The Beginning of British Post-war Belarusian Studies
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metadata.value: Kodin, Evgenii V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-12-15T17:38:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-12-15T17:38:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Kodin E. V. The Beginning of British Post-war Belarusian Studies. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 3, рp. 983–997. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.318 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.318
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38705
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metadata.value: The initial period of British Belarusian studies was significantly different from the process of
  formation of research on Belarus in the United States. There was no intervention of special
  services; the state and political establishment of the kingdom showed no interest in Belarusian
  issues. In such a situation, the first works on Belarusian history in the UK were prepared by
  representatives of the insignificant Belarusian emigrant diaspora. The inspirer and organizer,
  as well as the author of historical publications, was the president of the Belarusian Central
  Rada, appointed to this post at the end of 1943 by the Nazis in occupied Minsk, Radoslaw Ostrowski.
  Radoslaw Ostrowski’s collaborationist track record is considerable. This includes the
  creation of civil administration bodies in Minsk, Briansk, Smolensk, Mogilev; the formation
  of Belarusian military units to fight partisans; cooperation with the CIA in post-war Germany
  with projects to prepare an anti-Soviet underground in Belarus, and more. Ostrowski considered
  the “Bolshevik Moscow” to be the “mortal enemy” of Belarus, which, in his assessment,
  did not want to see the Belarusian people free at any time. That was the reason for an explicitly
  anti-Russian attitude in all the London publications prepared by Radoslaw Ostrowski and his
  son Viktor, who was arrested in the fall of 1939 in Vilnius by the NKVD and sentenced to
  8 years of camps, joined the army of General Anders, which at the end of the war was transferred
  to England and demobilized here.
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metadata.value: The article was prepared with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project
  No. 20-59-00001/20 “Modern foreign historical Belarusian studies: Тhe evolution of methodological approaches
  and assessments”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of Belarus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: British Belarusian studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Belarusian post-war emigration
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: The Beginning of British Post-war Belarusian Studies
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metadata.value: Article
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