WHAT DO WE TEACH ABOUT OUR NEIGHBOURS Vital Kirylenka, Nadzeya Kushner, Siarhei Lukashanets
Curriculum History and Social Science Courses History of Belarus World History People. Society. State Years of studying Basic secondary school (V-IX grades) Upper secondary school (X-XI grades) University course (1st year)
World History Vikings Sweden – Thirty years War ( ) North War ( ) Alfred Nobel Award Soviet-Finnish War ( )
World Contemporary History: RUSSIA LITHUANIA POLAND UKRAINE LATVIA 20%69% 100%75% 25% 58% 42% 11% 29% 14% 57% Connotation positive negative neutral
Belarus neighbours Latvia Lithuania Poland Russia Ukraine
Latvia Polatsk duke Uladzimir and Riga foundation (1201) Struggle between Livonian knights and Belarusian Dukes of Kukeinas and Gercike (XIII century) Riga-Belarusian trade cooperation Participation of Belarusian-Lithuanian State in Livonian War ( ) Belarusian people in Latvia
Lithuania The formation of Great Dutchy of Lithuania, Rus and Samogitia (XIII century) Lithuanian-Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (February 1919-July 1920) Transition of Vilnia to Lithuania in 1939
Grunvald Battle (1410)
Poland Invitation of Great Duke of Lithuania Jahajla to the Polish throne (1385) Unions between Great Dutchy and Poland (1385, 1401, 1413) Establishing of Rzecz Pospolita of Both Nations (1569) Polonization on Belarusian nobility and spread of Roman Catholic Church (XVI-XVIII) Uprisings 1794, 1830, 1863 Riga Peace Treaty (1921) Western Belarus as a part of Poland ( )
Rzecz Pospolita of Both Nations (1569)
Russia Kiev Rus Moscow-LIthuanian Wars (XV-XVIII) Inclusion of Belarusian territories in Russian Empire (1772, 1793, 1795) Uprisings (1794, , ) Russian Empire policy in Belarus (rusification, serfdom and its abolition in 1861, reforms of Alexander II) Revolutions (1905, 1917), World War I Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR World War II
Russian Army moves to Lithuania (XVI century)
Ukraine Kiev Rus Blue Water Battle (1363) and liberation of Ukraine lands by the Great Dutchy from tatars Cossacks Wars (XVII) Ukranian and Belarusian Democratic Republics (1918) Western Ukraine and Western Belarus in Poland ( ) Independent Ukraine and Belarus States (1991)
Cossacks in XVII century
Different Views Latvia – no problems Lithuania – the essence of Great Dutchy of Lithuania, Vilnia/Vilnius history Poland – National heroes and famous people origins, the rule of Pilsudski regime Russia – belarusian nation existance, slavic lands of Great Dutchy of Lithuania Ukraine – Polesie region origins
Conclusion We have many topics to argue but we are together and happy to discuss these questions... Unity in variety...