Forgotten occupation
Germans and Belarusians in the lands of Ober Ost (1915–17)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9640749 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lizaveta Kasmach (University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 321-340 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Slavonic Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-5006 • E-ISSN: 2375-2475 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00085006.2016.1238613 |
| OpenAlex | W2533377713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article discusses Belarusian national activism during the First World War in the western borderlands of the Russian Empire, in the areas occupied by the German army in 1915. Chronologically, it is limited to the period between 1915 and 1917, before the German administration adopted a clear Lithuanian-oriented strategy for Ober Ost. The author examines both German and Belarusian perspectives, concentrating on the evolution of German attitudes to Belarusians as a separate ethnicity in Ober Ost as well as on the challenges for the Belarusian nation-building process in this period. Despite restrictive and exploitative German policies, Belarusian national elites in Ober Ost were able to articulate their goals and engage in practical nation-building activities. In contrast to the eastern Belarusian provinces, which remained under Russian rule and experienced a surge of national politics only after the February Revolution, in 1915 Ober Ost Belarusians were already pioneering the national cause through publishing, charities, and schools. They were able to secure partial support from the German occupation authorities, yet the latter merely instrumentalized Belarusian nationalism as a tool of their anti-Polish policies
Archaeology · Economic history · Empire · German · Lithuanian · Nationalism · Nazism · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Publishing · Sociology · Central European national history · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Public Administration
War Land on the Eastern Front
The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906–1931
The Brest-Litovsk Moment
The Empire and Nationalism at War
From the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the Belarusian Democratic Republic
German Eastern Policy, 1917–1918
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |