Cultural life of the population of Belarus in the First World War Periodicals
https://doi.org/10.29235/2524-2369-2019-64-1-50-55
Abstract
Cultural life of people of Belarus, based on the analysis of the periodicals first World War, is studied in the article. The sources of the research are as follows: “Nasha Niva”, “Belarus”, “Goman”, “Vilenskije gubernskije vedomosti”, “Orshanskij vestnik”, “Minskaja gazeta-kopeika”, “Minskij golos”, “Beloruskij kalendar”. The author accentuates that cultural life of the population of Belarus during the World War I was polyethnic due to the fact that there were more than thirty nationalities within relatively small Belarusian and Lithuanian region.
The abstracts from descriptions of cultural events provided by the witnesses, their opinions on these or those issues in culture, having been published in the newspapers of the period of research, are provided to indentify the of tendencies and peculiarities of cultural development of the population on the territory of Belarus. It is stated that cultural life in its various forms is often used as a tool for gaining material source to support the army, refugees and other categories of people suffering during the World War I.
About the Author
O. P. DmitrievaBelarus
Olga P. Dmitrieva – Ph. D. (Hist.), Associate Professor, Head of Foreign Language Communication Department,
17 Moskovskaya Str., Minsk, 220007.
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