Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Alena Marková -- Copyright page / Alena Marková -- Dedication / Alena Marková -- Acknowledgements / Alena Marková -- Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Names / Alena Marková -- Preface / Alena Marková -- Chapter 1 Overview of Literature and Sources / Alena Marková -- Chapter 2 Debate on the Essence of Belarusization: Terminology and Definitions / Alena Marková -- Chapter 3 Soviet Belarus on the Threshold of Belarusization / Alena Marková -- Chapter 4 Communist or National? Ideology and the Nationality Policy / Alena Marková -- Chapter 5 Belarusization in the Field of Education / Alena Marková -- Chapter 6 History and National Identity on Textbook Pages / Alena Marková -- Chapter 7 Language and Bureaucracy: Belarusization in the State Sector and Party Apparatus / Alena Marková -- Chapter 8 Belarusization: from "National Construction" to "Nationalistic Bourgeois Counter-Revolution" / Alena Marková -- Conclusion. A Theoretical Framework for Belarusization / Alena Marková -- Terms and Abbreviations / Alena Marková -- Bibliography / Alena Marková -- Index / Alena Marková.

The book sheds light on processes of Belarusian nation-building and identity formation during the interwar period. It provides a complete analysis of the Soviet policy of Belarusization in interwar Belarus (1924-1929). The analysis covers issues pertaining to the formation of national identity, the incorporation of the Belarusian national language into educational and administrative spheres within the policy of Belarusization and its acceptance by the different strata of the multi-ethnic society in the BSSR of that period. The monograph also sheds light on the reasons for the launching and ceasing of that policy as well as on the interrelation between the Communist Party and the Belarusian national intelligentsia.

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