Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

The documentation of Byelorussian art: a selected annotated bibliography

1992; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 17; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0307472200007744

2059-7525

Halina Rusak,

Eastern European Communism and Reforms

A selected, annotated list of books on Byelorussian art and architecture is preceded by a brief introduction to the history of the Byelorussian people and Byelorussian culture from the medieval Principality of Polatsk to present day independence. Byelorussian culture survives in spite of oppression from both Tsarist Russia and from the USSR which permitted cultural expression but only on its own somewhat unpredictable terms. A number of books on Byelorussian art were published during the Soviet era, and especially in the post-Stalinist period, but generally in Russian as distinct from Byelorussian. Some material on Byelorussian topics has also been published in the USA and the United Kingdom.