"History of Belarusian state" between the East and the West
The article deals with the recent publication of the first volume of the 5-volumed «History of Belarusian state», elaborated by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB). The book covers the period from prehistoric age until the end of the XVIIIth century. The focus is on analysis of ideological and political components of the presented historical synthesis in the context of recent tendencies in Belarus’s history politics. The author examines the book’s text in search for discourse influences from historiographical traditions external for Belarus, especially the Polish one. Specific terminology dealing with history, meaningful accents, omissions of certain events and names of the past, political connotations of various issues, academic disputability of proposed renditions and explanations are all identified here.