Na drodze do wolności. Białoruska partyzantka kulturowa w przestrzeni publicznej i Internecie
The Way to Freedom. Belarusian Cultural Guerrilla Movement in Public Space and on the Internet

Author(s): Joanna Getka, Jolanta Darczewska
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Belarussian Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Belarus; cultural protest; 2020 elections; Alexander Lukashenko; counterculture
Summary/Abstract: Mass protests in Belarus after the presidential election in 2020 showed all weaknesses of the official propaganda. The monograph characterises the tools of the cultural protest (banners, music, street art, digital forms of resistance), which exposed a deficit of truth in the relations between the government and society. They undermine and ridicule the actions undertaken by the presidential centre as well as the long-term strategy of the official propaganda. Regardless of the political outcome, the 2020 crisis will have long-lasting political, social and cultural consequences. It is an important factor in building the contemporary Belarusian identity.

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