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SUMMARY:'Resistance and Nationalism' - Professor David Marples - Professor
  David Marples (University of Alberta)
DTSTART:20130124T173000Z
DTEND:20130124T190000Z
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CONTACT:Victoria Lever
DESCRIPTION:A discussion of the contrasting application of resistance theo
 ry to the situation in Belarus in two eras: under Nazi occupation during t
 he Second World War\; and under the current authoritarian regime of Presid
 ent Aliaksandr Lukashenka. The modern state in many ways rests on the trad
 itional theme of Partisan resistance to the occupant in harmony with the l
 ocal population\, based on principles of resistance enunciated initially b
 y V.I. Lenin. But the victory achieved is identified with a collective Sov
 iet identity that has undergone a metamorphosis in the independent state i
 nto modern-day civic nationalism that attempts to conceal another form of 
 nationalist resistance: that of ethnic Belarusian anti-Soviet forces durin
 g the war\, and the contemporary national opposition in the republic today
 \, manifested most notably in the Belarusian Popular Front and the Young F
 ront. Is it possible to reconcile these forms of state nationalism and the
 ir divided historical memory? \n\nProfessor David Marples (University of A
 lberta) will deliver the fifth lecture as part of the 'Resistance in Russi
 an and Eastern Europe' public lecture series\, organised by the Department
  of Slavonic Studies and the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East Euro
 pean Studies.
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College
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