Smolensk State University of Sports
The article presents methodological approaches and assessments of the process of Belarusization in the works of the most authoritative modern foreign historians, whose research interests are directly the processes of nation-building, national identity and specifically Belarusization, and whose works are a kind of «reference books» for specialists on these problems, both in Belarus itself and in the world historical community (Terry Martin, Nelly Bekus, Per Rudling, Alеnа Markova). Retrospectively, early assessments of the process of Belarusization in research of N.P. Vakar and I.S. Lubachko are given, who had a significant impact on foreign Belarusian studies.