The Path to a Soviet Nation: The Policy of Belarusization, 1924-1929

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Names
Preface
Chapter 1 Overview of Literature and Sources
Chapter 2 Debate on the Essence of Belarusization: Terminology and Definitions
Chapter 3 Soviet Belarus on the Threshold of Belarusization
	3.1 Introduction to the Historic Context
	3.2 The First and Second Enlargements of the BSSR: The Consolidation of the Belarusian Lands
Chapter 4 Communist or National? Ideology and the Nationality Policy
	4.1 Political and Ideological Debates: Why Do We Need Nationalization? The Nationality Policy’s Goals and Objectives
	4.2 Belarusian Intelligentsia and the Communist Party: Discipline. Categorize. Supervise
Chapter 5 Belarusization in the Field of Education
	5.1 Structure and Contents of the Chapter
	5.2 Belarusization at Secondary Comprehensive Schools. Advocating for the Belarusian School
	5.3 Colleges and Higher Educational Establishments. The Institute of Belarusian Culture
	5.4 Down with Illiteracy! Belarusization at Illiteracy Eradication Centers
	5.5 Teachers as “Workers on the Education Frontline”. Their Role in the Promotion of Belarusization
Chapter 6 History and National Identity on Textbook Pages
Chapter 7 Language and Bureaucracy: Belarusization in the State Sector and Party Apparatus
	7.1 Belarusian as a Language of the State Administration and Party Apparatus
	7.2 Belarusization at Trade Unions
	7.3 Report, Evaluate, and Discipline: Activities of Inspectors and Inspection Commissions
	7.4 Belarusization of the Red Army
	7.5 Indigenization at the State Apparatus and the Social Structure Transformation Processes
Chapter 8 Belarusization: from “National Construction” to “Nationalistic Bourgeois Counter-Revolution”
Conclusion. A Theoretical Framework forBelarusization
Terms and Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index