Belarusian national revival
Belarusian social, cultural and political movement
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The Belarusian national revival (Belarusian: Беларускае нацыянальнае адраджэнне) is a social, cultural and political movement that advocates the revival of Belarusian culture, language, customs, and the creation of the Belarusian statehood at the national foundation.[citation needed]
In the early and mid 19th century, Jan Czeczot, Wladyslaw Syrokomla, Wincenty Dunin-Marcinkiewicz, Jan Barszczewski and several other writers, most of whom represented the local nobility, created the first literary works in modern Belarusian language.[citation needed] Their works were written in local rural dialects and ignored the traditions of the written Old Belarusian language from the period of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.[citation needed]
In the second half of the 19th century, leftist national clubs emerged among Belarusian students in the major universities of the Russian Empire, i.e. in the University of St. Petersburg.[citation needed] These clubs issued several illegal publications, for example, Homan with demands for autonomy or independence for Belarus.[citation needed] Ignacy Hryniewiecki, the assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, according to some historians, was one of the creators of the Belarusian faction in the Russian socialist movement Narodnaya Volya.[1]
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References
- ^ Michaluk, Dorota (2010). Białoruska Republika Ludowa 1918–1920 u podstaw białoruskiej państwowości [Belarusian People's Republic 1918–1920 at the basis of Belarusian statehood] (in Polish). Toruń: Wydawnictwo naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika.
