Abstract
The subject of this study is the phenomenon of the so-called Belarusization in the territory of the Belarusian Soviet Socialistic Republic in the 1920s. The Belarusization is a unique historical process, which was a local Belarusian equivalent of the policy sanctioned by the all-union communist government promoting national culture of the local nations (of the national languages and others) and of the policy of “indigenization” (korenizace), i. e. installment of ethnically “local” staff in the bureaus of the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union.
This study analyzes the reasoning standing behind the initiation of the Belarusization policy; the execution of this policy was supposed to strengthen the insecure stability of the newly established soviet government and soviet state, and this even at the price of a number of compromises (meaning de facto the support of a growing national movement) toward the respective republics and national intelligentsia, which played a most significant role in the Belarusian conditions. The study presents a whole picture and conception of the role of the Belarusization within the wider process of formation of the Belarusian nation.