Bibliography of the history of Belarus and Byelorussia

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This is a select bibliography of English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Belarus and Byelorussia. 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.

Inclusion criteria

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

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;[a] 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 and Byelorussia 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

  • Savchenko. (2009). Belarus: A Perpetual Borderland. Leiden: Brill.[1]

Regional studies

This sections contains works about Eastern Europe[b] with significant content about Belarus.

  • Applebaum, A. (2013). Iron Curtain. The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–56. New York: Penguin.[2][3]
  • Fritz, V. (2007). State-Building: A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia (1st ed.). Budapest: Central European University Press.
  • Hoffman, E. (1993). Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe. New York: Viking Press.[4]
  • Howard, A. (Ed.). (1993). Constitution Making in Eastern Europe. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.[5]
  • Kenney, P. P. (2013). The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe since 1989 (Global History of the Present). London: Zed Books.[6][7]
  • Geremek, B. (1996). The Common Roots of Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press.[8]
  • Snyder, T. (2004). The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999. New Haven: Yale University Press.[9][10][11]
  • Ther, P. (2016). Europe Since 1989: A History (C. Hughes-Kreutzmüller, Trans.). Princeton: Princeton University Press.[12][13]
  • Wolff, L. (1994). Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.[14][15][16]

Borderland studies

Period studies

Early Slavs and Byelorussians

  • Bocek, V., Jansens, N., & Klir, T. (Eds.). (2020). New Perspectives on the Early Slavs and the Rise of Slavic: Contact and Migrations. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter.
  • Dolukhanov, P. (2016). The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus. London: Routledge.I[21][22]
  • Dvornik, F. (1956). The Slavs: Their Early History and Civilization. Boston, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[23][24]
  • Halperin, C. J. (2010). National Identity in Premodern Rus'. Russian History, 37(3), 275–294.
  • Plokhy, S. (2010). The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[25][26][27]
  • Pritsak, O. (1991). The Origin of Rus. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.[28][29]

Pre-Soviet Byelorussia

  • Blum, J. (1971).
    Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.[30][31]

Soviet Byelorussia

World War II in Byelorussia

The Holocaust in Byelorussia

Chernobyl

Independent Belarus

Russia-Belarus Union

Topical studies

Political

Social

Violence and terror

Religion

Economics

Rural studies and agriculture

Urban studies and industry

  • Under construction

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).

  • Under construction

Primary sources

Academic journals

See also

References

Notes

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

Citations

External links

Below are online bibliographies related to Belarus from academic and professional historical organizations.