Фарміраванне ідэнтычнасці беларускіх нацыянальных дзеячаў у 1890-х гг. – пачатку ХХ ст.: ад польскай да беларускай самасвядомасці
The Construction of the Identity of Belarusian National Activists from the 1890s until the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: From Polish to Belarusian Identity

Author(s): Viktar Korbut
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Belarus; Poland; Lithuania; Belarusians; Poles; identity; language
Summary/Abstract: The turn of the twentieth century saw the formation of the identity of key figures of the Belarusian national movement (Antoni/Anton and Jan/Ivan Łuckiewicz/Luckievič, Jan/Ivan Lucevič [Januk (Janka) Kupała], etc.). Natives of the Polish cultural and linguistic environment in Belarus, they came to embrace their Belarusian identity and switched to the Belarusian language in the process of aligning themselves with the Belarusian peasants and their language and concomitantly placing themselves in opposition to the erstwhile Polish and Russian elites. The formation of the identity of the first Belarusian figures was partially influenced by nineteenth-century Polish writers who wrote in the Belarusian language as well as certain figures of the Lithuanian national movement.

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