{"id":12459,"date":"2021-01-08T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/ksiazek\/herito-nr-41-bialorus\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:32:47","slug":"herito-nr-41-bialorus","status":"publish","type":"ksiazek","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/ksiazek\/herito-nr-41-bialorus\/","title":{"rendered":"HERITO, No. 41: Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe Ugly Duckling of Post-Soviet Transformation\u201d? Or the \u201cTerra incognita for the world\u201d \u2013 as Svetlana Alexievich wrote about her country? Belarus is often perceived unfavourably, and sometimes even unfairly. Meanwhile, our neighbours\u2019 country is much more than the last remaining old-style European dictatorship. It is a country where the thirst for freedom is as strong as anywhere else in Europe. A country that still searches for and defines its own roots but does not reject them. Belarus is much closer to us than it seems. At the same time, no other neighbour do we know so poorly. Therefore, instead of being afraid of Belarus, it is better to discover and understand it, with the help of Belarusian authors, supported by voices from Poland, England and\u2026 Japan.
Hienad\u017a Sahanovi\u0107 and Hieronim Grala explain the struggle of Belarus with its own history. Nelly Bekus explains the pillars on which today\u2019s democratic uprising rests and how the opposition tries to redefine the Belarusian identity. Ziemowit Szczerek shows how order and cleanliness translated into a sense of superiority in relation to Ukrainians and Russians in Belarus. Irina So\u0142omatina looks at the female face of the protests, as well as their historical associations, i.e. the participation of women in the patriotic war.Maria Dawydczyk talks about the relations between Belarus and the European Union, questioning the \u201cmonolith\u201d called Eastern Europe. Valiantsin Akudovich addresses the \u201cnon-memory\u201d of Chernobyl. Owen Hatherley brings out the fascinating diversity of Belarusian architecture in the 20th century. Anna \u0141azar shows what Belarus has brought to global art and what kind of art is popular there today. Tokimasa Sekiguchi explains a Japanese fascination with the Neman river and the Sviciaz\u2019 Lake.
\u201cHerito\u201d also interviewed Ivan \u0141ysiuk, who told Przemys\u0142aw Witkowski about Belarusian neopaganism, and Stsiapan Stureika, who, in conversation with Micha\u0142 Wi\u015bniewski, discussed layers of Belarusian heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editorial
<\/strong>Hieronim Grala \u2013 Ruthenia Alba. The historical Belarus in its own eyes and in the eyes of neighbours<\/strong>
Henadz Sahanovich \u2013 On the type of Belarusian history needed by Lukashenko\u2019s regim<\/strong>
Nelly Bekus \u2013 Societal mobilisation, historical symbolism, and the Belarusian echo of 1989<\/strong>
Irina Solomatina \u2013 Peculiar features of the revolution with a woman\u2019s face<\/strong>
Maria Davydchyk \u2013 The EU and Belarus. Neighbours in Europe<\/strong>
Valantsin Akudovich \u2013 An apocalypse that never was<\/strong>
In our hands it will become an Aryan sword! Ivan Lysiuk interviewed
<\/strong>Owen Hatherley \u2013 Architecture of Belarus in the 20th century. A Guide<\/strong>
Heritage as multilayered addiction. Stsiapan Stureika interviewed
<\/strong>Anna \u0141azar \u2013 All about Eve<\/strong>
Tokimasa Sekiguchi \u2013 Belarus, so beautiful!<\/strong>
Ziemowit Szczerek \u2013 Cracking spines<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Ugly Duckling of Post-Soviet Transformation\u201d? Or the \u201cTerra incognita for the world\u201d \u2013 as Svetlana Alexievich wrote about her country? Belarus is often perceived unfavourably, and sometimes even unfairly. Meanwhile, our neighbours\u2019 country is much more than the last remaining old-style European dictatorship. It is a country where the thirst for freedom is as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8811,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"kategoria_ksiazek":[89],"dostepnosc":[123],"class_list":["post-12459","ksiazek","type-ksiazek","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategoria_ksiazek-herito-en","dostepnosc-kup-w-ksiegarni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksiazek\/12459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksiazek"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ksiazek"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksiazek\/12459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12462,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksiazek\/12459\/revisions\/12462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategoria_ksiazek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategoria_ksiazek?post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"dostepnosc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dostepnosc?post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}