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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Hidden Champions of Belarus
verfasst von : Pavel Daneyko, Pavel Golenchenko
Erschienen in: Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Overview
Official name:
Republic of Belarus
Type of government:
Presidential Republic
Population in 2011:
9,481,200
Land area:
207,6 km2
History
1915/1918
The present-day Belarusian territory is the scene of bloody battles between German and Russian forces.
1918
(March 3rd) The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed, marking Russia’s exit from World War One.
1919
The Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelorussia is set up.
1921/1928
The Riga Peace Treaty results in the partitioning of Belarus between the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic and Poland. New Economic Policy (NEP) introduced across Belarus.
1921/1930
The Polish part of Belarus is subjected to Polonization.
1922
The Belarusian SSR becomes a part of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
1936/1940
The Great Purge. More than 86,000 Belarusians suffer political oppression and over 28,000 are sentenced to death at the Kuropaty camp near Minsk.
1939
(September 17th) The Red Army moves into West Belarus.
1941
The start of the Great Patriotic War in Belarus. The Germans occupy all of present-day Belarus.
1945
(May) The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet peoples against the Nazi aggressors ends. Belarus becomes one of the founding members of the United Nations Organization.
1954
Belarus joins UNESCO.
1986
(April) Chernobyl Nuclear reactor disaster.
1990
Belarus declares its national sovereignty. The BSSR is formally renamed the Republic of Belarus.
1991
The USSR collapses; Belarus is proclaimed an independent republic.
1994
The first presidential elections are held and Alexander Lukashenko is elected president of Belarus.
1996
Belarusian Referendum results in the amendment of the constitution that strips parliament of key powers.
1997
Signing of the Union of Belarus and Russia.
2001
President Alexander Lukashenko is re-elected in elections described as undemocratic by Western observers.