Volha Bartash
Biographic Data
| ID | 5184516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Volha Bartash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Volha |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartash |
| SIGNATURE | BARTASH V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1320-0004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Many Miles to Warsaw
This article draws on oral history interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with Catholic women in the Belarusian countryside. Using a gender lens, it offers a fresh perspective on how rural women under Soviet rule organised themselves into an underground religious community in Little Warsaw. Through their religious practices – family rituals, secret gatherings and Marian devotions – these women showed resilience and agency despite state pressure an…
Mnemonic border-crossings
How have Roma communities, separated by state boundaries, remembered and commemorated the Nazi genocide? How have they communicated and mourned for their losses across shifting borders? This article explores the complex relationship between community memory and borders, drawing on my oral history and ethnographic research in the Lithuanian – Belarusian and Belarusian – Latvian border regions. Departing from family histories of Roma before, during…
Introduction
Pioneers and Partisans
The sedentarisation of Roma in the Soviet Union after 1956
Drawing on interviews with people who experienced sedentarisation – on participant observation and on conversations in Romani communities as well as statistical data and official documents – I analyse the transition to sedentary life among Roma in the former Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic. The article begins with an analysis of the socio-economic and political processes that led to the sedentarisation of Roma in the Soviet Union. The dilem…
The sedentarisation of Roma in the Soviet Union after 1956
Drawing on interviews with people who experienced sedentarisation – on participant observation and on conversations in Romani communities as well as statistical data and official documents – I analyse the transition to sedentary life among Roma in the former Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic. The article begins with an analysis of the socio-economic and political processes that led to the sedentarisation of Roma in the Soviet Union. The dilem…
The sedentarisation of Roma in the Soviet Union after 1956
Drawing on interviews with people who experienced sedentarisation – on participant observation and on conversations in Romani communities as well as statistical data and official documents – I analyse the transition to sedentary life among Roma in the former Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic. The article begins with an analysis of the socio-economic and political processes that led to the sedentarisation of Roma in the Soviet Union. The dilem…
Pioneers and Partisans
Mnemonic border-crossings
How have Roma communities, separated by state boundaries, remembered and commemorated the Nazi genocide? How have they communicated and mourned for their losses across shifting borders? This article explores the complex relationship between community memory and borders, drawing on my oral history and ethnographic research in the Lithuanian – Belarusian and Belarusian – Latvian border regions. Departing from family histories of Roma before, during…
Introduction
How Many Miles to Warsaw
This article draws on oral history interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with Catholic women in the Belarusian countryside. Using a gender lens, it offers a fresh perspective on how rural women under Soviet rule organised themselves into an underground religious community in Little Warsaw. Through their religious practices – family rituals, secret gatherings and Marian devotions – these women showed resilience and agency despite state pressure an…
History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Genocide (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Nazism (3 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)