UID:
almahu_9949530727402882
Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 212 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003311454
,
1003311458
,
9781000883220
,
1000883221
,
9781000883169
,
1000883167
Series Statement:
BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
Content:
"This book presents a comprehensive overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores how there has been an upswelling of popular support for the idea that Belarus must change. It highlights how the old regime, aiming to retain the Soviet legacy, reluctant to reform, presiding over worsening economic conditions and refusing to take measures to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, has been confronted by increasing bottom-up social mobilisation which demands a transformation of state-society relations and a new sense of Belarusian peoplehood. The book outlines how the current situation has developed, considers how the present demands for change are deep seated and long brewing trends, and reveals much detail about many aspects of the growing societal mobilisation. Overall, the book demonstrates that, although the old regime remains in power, Belarusian society has changed fundamentally, thereby bringing great hope that change will eventually come about"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Belarus in the twenty-first century Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032318059
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
;
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003311454
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003311454
