The influence of wars and military conflicts of the 1914-1921 on the formation of identity in Belarusian lands: The historiography approach of the 2010s
The article is devoted to the signicant changes in the Belarusian (rst and foremost) historiography regarding the evaluation of mili-tary conicts of the 1914-1921 and their impact on the identity of the people who lived in what is today Belarus. Historians disclaim the concepts of the Soviet era, which focused on the impoverish-ment and illiteracy of Belrusians supposedly making them a fertile ground for the processes of revolutionary reorganization. Research-ers note that the realities of the social transformation of the Belaru-sian society were much more difcult, the preservation of traditional forms of social organization was combined with large-scale changes caused by the First World War, the Civil and Soviet-Polish wars.