Францішак Багушэвіч – ідэолаг беларускай нацыянальнай ідэі?
Franciszek Bohuszewicz – an ideologist of the Belarusian national idea?

Author(s): Viachaslau Shved
Subject(s): Cultural history, Security and defense, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Belarusian national idea; Franciszek Bohuszewicz’s work; Belarusian language; “sad pipe”; censorship
Summary/Abstract: The article is a polemic with Oleg Łatyszonek, a Belarusian historian from Białystok, over whether Franciszek Bohuszewicz can be considered an ideologist and a creator of the Belarusian national idea. Based on Bohuszewicz’s poems (published under pen name Maciej Buraczok), statements of the poet’s relatives and friends, obituaries, and material of 20th-century researchers, the author claims that, regardless of the persecution by the authorities and the censorship of his works, Bohuszewicz accomplished his mission: he showed the hard life of Belarusians in the times after the enfranchisement of peasants, he named those who were to blame for their situation and outlined ways to overcome it (through legal action, education and even death for freedom, like the Kościuszko Uprising fighters). Bohuszewicz was therefore an ideologist and a creator of the Belarusian national idea in the second half of the 19th century.

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