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Гісторыя Атамана Грача
History of the Ataman Hrač

Author(s): Nina Stuzynskaja
Subject(s): Social history
Published by: Uniwersytet Warszawski - Katedra Studiów Interkulturowych Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
Keywords: anti-Bolshevik struggle; partisans; Belarus; independence

Summary/Abstract: The article tells the story of a participant in the anti-Bolshevik guerrilla movement of Uladzimir Ksianievič (pseudonym Ataman Hrač). He is a man not known and known until recently in historiography. In 1924, Ataman Hrač crossed the Polish-Soviet border and made it to Soviet Belarus, where he was soon arrested and convicted. Files regarding the investigation are kept in the Archive of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus. Based on court fi les, the author of a given publication reproduces the subsequent stages of the fate of the guerrilla. The tragic fate of this activist was shown against the background of political events that took place in the region at that time.

  • Issue Year: 4/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 77-87
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Belarusian