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Author(s): Siarhej Tokć, Źmicier Skvarčeŭski, Andruś Unučak, Dźmitry Šavialioŭ
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Палітычная сфера
Keywords: sacral geography; paganism; mythology; traditional culture; Lithuania; Lithuanians; Jews; Poles; political parties; sacred history; Catholicism; Orthodoxy; Church Union; the Russian Empire; Russifi cation; national policy; the Russian Empire; Lithuania;

Summary/Abstract: Andrej Valodźkin (Andrei Valodzkin). Th e Chronicles of Abandoned Regionalism. Baltijos valstybių vienybės idėja ir praktika 1918–1940 metais. Dokumentų rinkinys (2008) Th e review of the collection of documents which illustrate the development of the idea of unity of Baltic states in the interwar period. Th e review of the Lithuanian historian Darius Staliūnas’ book which considers numerous evidences of the Russifi cation policy towards national communities of Lithuania and Belarus in the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Th e review presents a mutual book of a Lithuanian and a Russian historian which is devoted to the projects of “reverse union” (joining the Catholic Church to the Orthodox Church) in the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Th e review examines a collection of articles devoted to the issue of Lithuanian-Jewish contacts in the early 20th century. Th e articles for this book were specially written by the well-known researchers from Lithuania, Israel and the U.S. Th e reviewed book presents the results of studies in the fi eld of sacred geography of Belarus carried out during the recent years. Th is book is the fi rst attempt of regular research of landscape objects and archeological monuments in the context of traditional culture. Much attention is given to monuments of pre-Christian culture on the territory of Belarus.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 18-19
  • Page Range: 247-287
  • Page Count: 41