title: The Formation of American Post-war Belarusian Studies
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metadata.value: Kodin, Evgenii V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T10:42:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T10:42:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Kodin E. V. The Formation of American Post-war Belarusian Studies. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 1, рp. 260–275.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.117
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36500
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: American post-war Belarusian studies during its initial stage differed from similar processes
  in other countries. The CIA, which was interested in using the Belarusian emigration for its
  own purposes, the Congress, and some senators, with whom the leadership of the Belarusian-
  American Association actively worked, originally played a significant role. The CIA supported
  the activities of the Chairman of the Rada of the Belarusian People’s Republic (in exile)
  Nikolai Abramchik, who was one of the first Belarusian emigrants to publicly declare Moscow’s
  anti-Belarusian policy, using such concepts as the “Russian genocide of the Belarusian
  people”, “occupation of Belarusian lands”, etc., calling on America to “protect the oppressed
  Belarusian people”. In 1954, a special commission of the Congress held hearings on the topic
  “The Communist seizure and occupation of Belarus”, during which a kind of methodological
  guidelines for the “correct” study of the history of Belarus were determined. Against the background
  of McCarthyism and the fight against the “Red scare” allegedly coming from Moscow,
  it completely fitted into the so-called totalitarian concept in American Russian studies (then
  Sovietology), and hence Belarusian studies, which was being formed. It was in such a difficult
  political and ideological situation that the first study by N. P. Vakar “Belarus. The Creation of
  a Nation” was being created in the Russian Research Center of Harvard, which was published
  in 1956, and not only received general recognition in the American scholarly community, but
  also superseded all kinds of political pamphlets in the academic space.
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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: the evolution of methodological approaches
  and assessments”.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
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 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: History of Belarus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: American Belarusian studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Belarusian post-war emigration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: US Congress
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Formation of American Post-war Belarusian Studies
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