Belarus - A Perpetual Borderland Book

Foreword and acknowledgments Introduction. Images, concepts, and history of a borderland Chapter One. The making of a borderland
1.1. European neighborhoods and Eurasian borderlands.
1.2. An unfinished prelude to a modern nation: Belarus and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1.3. On the threshold of modernity: Belarus, defined by Poles and Russians.
Chapter Two. Ex Oriente Lux: the Belarusian national state and the Soviet Union
2.1. A discordant overture to nationhood (1914-1918).
2.2. Soviet Belarus between the wars: the birth of a nation.
2.3. Belarusians in interwar Poland: hostages to history.
2.4. The war of 1941-1945 and the consecration of the national myth.
2.5. The enduring charm of real socialism: Belarus in 1945-1990.
Chapter Three. Borderland forever: modern Belarus.
3.1. See no evil: Belarus in the twilight of the Soviet era.
3.2. Paradise lost: Belarus and the disintegration of the Soviet economy.
3.3. Back to the future: populist Belarus under Alyaksandar Lukashenka.
3.4. Political economy of institutional symbiosis: Belarus and Russia building future together.
Conclusion. Whither Belarus?
Bibliography Index