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• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Prologue: “Was, Worth, Will Be”
• Maps
• A Gallery of Prominent Belarusians Whose Contributions Supported Nation-Building
• Part I: The History of Belarusian Statehood
• 1 From Ethnos to a Nation (Belarusians in the Ninth to Nineteenth Centuries)
• 2 Belarusian Statehood in the Twentieth Century
• Part II: The Place of Belarusians Among Civilizations
• 3 Belarusian-Ukrainian/Western-Ruthenian Civilization
• 4 Belarusians and Ukrainians Belong to Western Civilization
• Part III: Characteristics of the Modern Belarusian Nation
• 5 The Conditions for Nation-Building in Belarus in the Late Twentieth Century
• 6 General Information about Modern Belarus
• 7 National Identity and Language
• 8 The Mentality of Belarusian Society (Belarusianness)
• 9 Church and Nation
• Part IV: BELARUS: In Search of Its Own Way
• 10 Theoretical Models of the Belarusian National State Construction
• 11 Under the “Patronage” of Russia
• 12 “Belarus—to Europe”
• 13 Neutrality by Form and Content, and Europeanism by Spirit
• 14 Belarusian Elites and Nation-Building Today
• 15 The Revolution of Hope
• Epilogue
• Appendix A: Princes of Polatsk
• Appendix B: Borders of Regions with a Majority Belarusian Population
• Appendix C: Changes in Territory and Population of Modern Belarus
• Appendix D: Periods of Nation-Building in Modern Belarus
• Appendix E: Belarusian Olympians Rank First in Summer Games among the Countries of the Former USSR
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author