Life for Belarus
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Life for Belarus
The Fall and Postmortal Rise of the USSR
Shushkevich, Stanislau
Central European University Press
01/2025
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Mole
Inglês
9789633865910
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Dedication
Translator's Note
Author's Introduction
Chapter 1: My Folks, Myself, and Our Elite
Grandparents, Parents, Family
About Myself: Chronology and Statistics
About Myself (or, Confessions of a Sovok)
Belarus, the Belarusians, the Elite
Moscow's Minions and/or Bad Apples That Some Revere to This Day
The Political and Creative Elite
Chapter 2: Batskaushchyna
Komarovka, My Little Motherland
June 1941
Remembered Forever
My School, My Teachers
My Mother's Wisdom
Artek
A Crossroads
My Undergraduate Days
When Work Is a Pleasure
Placement Time
Chapter 3: Academy, Plant, and University
Graduate Travels and the Daily Routine
The Radio Engineering Plant's Design Lab
Sasha and I Had a Pupil: Lee Harvey Oswald
The Return to My Alma Mater
The Department of Nuclear Physics and the Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy
Rave Reviews for My Candidate Dissertation, in Kharkov and Siberia
A Siberian Academician's Achilles Heel
Chapter 4: The Institute Was Good, but the University Was Better
A New Assignment
From No Party Affiliation to Party Intrigues
The Alma Mater Revisited
What Rutherford Recommended
Irresistible Force and Immovable Object
A Thing for Travel
The Sakharov College
The New First Secretary of the Belorussian Communist Party
Chapter 5: Chernobyl
How the University First Heard about the Chernobyl Disaster
Chernobyl and Gorbachev
The Culprits and the Guiltlessly Guilty
Fukushima and Chernobyl
Chapter 6: To Moscow, to the Halls of Power
The Mausoleum and the Kremlin
The Elections: My First, the District's Second
The First Congress
The People's Deputies of the USSR: Capacity, Competence, and Capability
Chapter 7: The Road to Viskuli
Trouble in "the Constellation of Equals"
A Daunting Precedent
Estonia: November 16, 1988
Lithuania: May 18, 1989
Latvia: July 28, 1989
Azerbaijan: September 23, 1989
Georgia: March 9, 1990
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic: June 12, 1990
Uzbekistan: June 20, 1990
Moldova: June 23, 1990
Ukraine: July 16, 1990
Belarus: July 27, 1990
Turkmenistan: August 22, 1990
Armenia: August 23, 1990
Tajikistan: August 24, 1990
Kazakhstan: October 25, 1990
Kyrgyzstan: December 15, 1990
Summing Up
Chapter 8: Enter the Lesser Actors
Declarations of Autonomy
Summing Up-And What Next?
Meanwhile, in Tatarstan...
Chapter 9: A Thumbs Down for Kebich, or "I Wish I'd Known Who My Drinking Buddy Was"
A Touching Missive
An Acquaintance Begins
A Pack of Liars
Pick a Boat and Stick with It
The Saga of the Nails
A Red Herring for the "Intellectuals"
Who Is Like Family to You?
Chapter 10: At Viskuli, in the Belavezha Reserve, December 7 - 8, 1991
The Invitation
Expanding the Guest List
How People Still Thought
Solidarity among Some Very Big Names
Arrivals by Air and Land
Viskuli, Day One
Second Thoughts
Late in the Evening of December 7, the Bathhouse
December 8
Who Called Gorbachev and Who Called Bush, and When?
Futile Doubts, Ratification
Speaking for the People
Aftermath
And Decades Later...
Chapter 11: Belarus and the United States
My First State Visit to the USA
Pennsylvania Avenue: Blair House to the Capitol
Downtime
Meeting President Clinton
Clinton in Belarus
Where to Now?
Chapter 12: The Intelligentsia and Politics
Politics and Art
The Party Hierarchy and Politicians
An Interclass Stratum
Our Belarusian Realities
An Academician Enticed
A Different Academician's Path
The University Maneuver
In the Role of Innocent Victim
Leader Now, Leader Forever
The Young Wolves and the Police General
"As the Wind Blows, So Bend the Branches"
Neighbors
Chapter 13: Universities, Colleges, Degrees, and Lectures
The University of Ljubljana
The Jagiellonian University
Poland: A Nongovernmental Institution
Poland: The Capital
The Catholic University and "My Memorial"
The Woodrow Wilson Center, or The Secret My Wife Kept for Seven Years
Harvard, the Sakharov College, and Scotch Whisky
Connecticut to New Haven to Yale
The Largest Private University in the Nation's Capital
England, 2017
London
Oxford
A Discovery
Cambridge
Time Out in Oxford, Kansas
Chapter 14: My Wider World
The Federal Republic of Germany
China
Brazil, Uruguay, Cabo Verde
Flying on the Vice President's IL-62
Mongolia
Japan
South Korea
France
A State Visit
On Dignity and Honor
An Encounter with a Prophet
Paris: The Institute d'Etudes Politiques
A Mexican Wedding in Spain
Austria: A Viennese Waltz
A Slap in the Face for Russophiles
An Edifying Example
Mexico
Mexico's Holy Places
Mexico's Pyramids
Chapter 15: A Pathological Condition
No Decency, No Dignity
The Sources and Components of Belarusian Statehood
The Presidential Candidates in the 2010 "Elections"
Hope for Deliverance
Chapter 16: The DAU Movie Studio-International in Status, Russian at Heart
Lev Davidovich Landau
London-2017: Piccadilly 1000
Both Authentic and Accessible
Chapter 17: The Passing Years, the Far and Near
Illustrated Micro-Essays on My Life, in No Particular Order
Chapter 18: Postscript
In Memoriam: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Translator's Note
Author's Introduction
Chapter 1: My Folks, Myself, and Our Elite
Grandparents, Parents, Family
About Myself: Chronology and Statistics
About Myself (or, Confessions of a Sovok)
Belarus, the Belarusians, the Elite
Moscow's Minions and/or Bad Apples That Some Revere to This Day
The Political and Creative Elite
Chapter 2: Batskaushchyna
Komarovka, My Little Motherland
June 1941
Remembered Forever
My School, My Teachers
My Mother's Wisdom
Artek
A Crossroads
My Undergraduate Days
When Work Is a Pleasure
Placement Time
Chapter 3: Academy, Plant, and University
Graduate Travels and the Daily Routine
The Radio Engineering Plant's Design Lab
Sasha and I Had a Pupil: Lee Harvey Oswald
The Return to My Alma Mater
The Department of Nuclear Physics and the Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy
Rave Reviews for My Candidate Dissertation, in Kharkov and Siberia
A Siberian Academician's Achilles Heel
Chapter 4: The Institute Was Good, but the University Was Better
A New Assignment
From No Party Affiliation to Party Intrigues
The Alma Mater Revisited
What Rutherford Recommended
Irresistible Force and Immovable Object
A Thing for Travel
The Sakharov College
The New First Secretary of the Belorussian Communist Party
Chapter 5: Chernobyl
How the University First Heard about the Chernobyl Disaster
Chernobyl and Gorbachev
The Culprits and the Guiltlessly Guilty
Fukushima and Chernobyl
Chapter 6: To Moscow, to the Halls of Power
The Mausoleum and the Kremlin
The Elections: My First, the District's Second
The First Congress
The People's Deputies of the USSR: Capacity, Competence, and Capability
Chapter 7: The Road to Viskuli
Trouble in "the Constellation of Equals"
A Daunting Precedent
Estonia: November 16, 1988
Lithuania: May 18, 1989
Latvia: July 28, 1989
Azerbaijan: September 23, 1989
Georgia: March 9, 1990
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic: June 12, 1990
Uzbekistan: June 20, 1990
Moldova: June 23, 1990
Ukraine: July 16, 1990
Belarus: July 27, 1990
Turkmenistan: August 22, 1990
Armenia: August 23, 1990
Tajikistan: August 24, 1990
Kazakhstan: October 25, 1990
Kyrgyzstan: December 15, 1990
Summing Up
Chapter 8: Enter the Lesser Actors
Declarations of Autonomy
Summing Up-And What Next?
Meanwhile, in Tatarstan...
Chapter 9: A Thumbs Down for Kebich, or "I Wish I'd Known Who My Drinking Buddy Was"
A Touching Missive
An Acquaintance Begins
A Pack of Liars
Pick a Boat and Stick with It
The Saga of the Nails
A Red Herring for the "Intellectuals"
Who Is Like Family to You?
Chapter 10: At Viskuli, in the Belavezha Reserve, December 7 - 8, 1991
The Invitation
Expanding the Guest List
How People Still Thought
Solidarity among Some Very Big Names
Arrivals by Air and Land
Viskuli, Day One
Second Thoughts
Late in the Evening of December 7, the Bathhouse
December 8
Who Called Gorbachev and Who Called Bush, and When?
Futile Doubts, Ratification
Speaking for the People
Aftermath
And Decades Later...
Chapter 11: Belarus and the United States
My First State Visit to the USA
Pennsylvania Avenue: Blair House to the Capitol
Downtime
Meeting President Clinton
Clinton in Belarus
Where to Now?
Chapter 12: The Intelligentsia and Politics
Politics and Art
The Party Hierarchy and Politicians
An Interclass Stratum
Our Belarusian Realities
An Academician Enticed
A Different Academician's Path
The University Maneuver
In the Role of Innocent Victim
Leader Now, Leader Forever
The Young Wolves and the Police General
"As the Wind Blows, So Bend the Branches"
Neighbors
Chapter 13: Universities, Colleges, Degrees, and Lectures
The University of Ljubljana
The Jagiellonian University
Poland: A Nongovernmental Institution
Poland: The Capital
The Catholic University and "My Memorial"
The Woodrow Wilson Center, or The Secret My Wife Kept for Seven Years
Harvard, the Sakharov College, and Scotch Whisky
Connecticut to New Haven to Yale
The Largest Private University in the Nation's Capital
England, 2017
London
Oxford
A Discovery
Cambridge
Time Out in Oxford, Kansas
Chapter 14: My Wider World
The Federal Republic of Germany
China
Brazil, Uruguay, Cabo Verde
Flying on the Vice President's IL-62
Mongolia
Japan
South Korea
France
A State Visit
On Dignity and Honor
An Encounter with a Prophet
Paris: The Institute d'Etudes Politiques
A Mexican Wedding in Spain
Austria: A Viennese Waltz
A Slap in the Face for Russophiles
An Edifying Example
Mexico
Mexico's Holy Places
Mexico's Pyramids
Chapter 15: A Pathological Condition
No Decency, No Dignity
The Sources and Components of Belarusian Statehood
The Presidential Candidates in the 2010 "Elections"
Hope for Deliverance
Chapter 16: The DAU Movie Studio-International in Status, Russian at Heart
Lev Davidovich Landau
London-2017: Piccadilly 1000
Both Authentic and Accessible
Chapter 17: The Passing Years, the Far and Near
Illustrated Micro-Essays on My Life, in No Particular Order
Chapter 18: Postscript
In Memoriam: Zbigniew Brzezinski
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perestroika; transition; Soviet imperialism; the moral; local intelligentsia
Dedication
Translator's Note
Author's Introduction
Chapter 1: My Folks, Myself, and Our Elite
Grandparents, Parents, Family
About Myself: Chronology and Statistics
About Myself (or, Confessions of a Sovok)
Belarus, the Belarusians, the Elite
Moscow's Minions and/or Bad Apples That Some Revere to This Day
The Political and Creative Elite
Chapter 2: Batskaushchyna
Komarovka, My Little Motherland
June 1941
Remembered Forever
My School, My Teachers
My Mother's Wisdom
Artek
A Crossroads
My Undergraduate Days
When Work Is a Pleasure
Placement Time
Chapter 3: Academy, Plant, and University
Graduate Travels and the Daily Routine
The Radio Engineering Plant's Design Lab
Sasha and I Had a Pupil: Lee Harvey Oswald
The Return to My Alma Mater
The Department of Nuclear Physics and the Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy
Rave Reviews for My Candidate Dissertation, in Kharkov and Siberia
A Siberian Academician's Achilles Heel
Chapter 4: The Institute Was Good, but the University Was Better
A New Assignment
From No Party Affiliation to Party Intrigues
The Alma Mater Revisited
What Rutherford Recommended
Irresistible Force and Immovable Object
A Thing for Travel
The Sakharov College
The New First Secretary of the Belorussian Communist Party
Chapter 5: Chernobyl
How the University First Heard about the Chernobyl Disaster
Chernobyl and Gorbachev
The Culprits and the Guiltlessly Guilty
Fukushima and Chernobyl
Chapter 6: To Moscow, to the Halls of Power
The Mausoleum and the Kremlin
The Elections: My First, the District's Second
The First Congress
The People's Deputies of the USSR: Capacity, Competence, and Capability
Chapter 7: The Road to Viskuli
Trouble in "the Constellation of Equals"
A Daunting Precedent
Estonia: November 16, 1988
Lithuania: May 18, 1989
Latvia: July 28, 1989
Azerbaijan: September 23, 1989
Georgia: March 9, 1990
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic: June 12, 1990
Uzbekistan: June 20, 1990
Moldova: June 23, 1990
Ukraine: July 16, 1990
Belarus: July 27, 1990
Turkmenistan: August 22, 1990
Armenia: August 23, 1990
Tajikistan: August 24, 1990
Kazakhstan: October 25, 1990
Kyrgyzstan: December 15, 1990
Summing Up
Chapter 8: Enter the Lesser Actors
Declarations of Autonomy
Summing Up-And What Next?
Meanwhile, in Tatarstan...
Chapter 9: A Thumbs Down for Kebich, or "I Wish I'd Known Who My Drinking Buddy Was"
A Touching Missive
An Acquaintance Begins
A Pack of Liars
Pick a Boat and Stick with It
The Saga of the Nails
A Red Herring for the "Intellectuals"
Who Is Like Family to You?
Chapter 10: At Viskuli, in the Belavezha Reserve, December 7 - 8, 1991
The Invitation
Expanding the Guest List
How People Still Thought
Solidarity among Some Very Big Names
Arrivals by Air and Land
Viskuli, Day One
Second Thoughts
Late in the Evening of December 7, the Bathhouse
December 8
Who Called Gorbachev and Who Called Bush, and When?
Futile Doubts, Ratification
Speaking for the People
Aftermath
And Decades Later...
Chapter 11: Belarus and the United States
My First State Visit to the USA
Pennsylvania Avenue: Blair House to the Capitol
Downtime
Meeting President Clinton
Clinton in Belarus
Where to Now?
Chapter 12: The Intelligentsia and Politics
Politics and Art
The Party Hierarchy and Politicians
An Interclass Stratum
Our Belarusian Realities
An Academician Enticed
A Different Academician's Path
The University Maneuver
In the Role of Innocent Victim
Leader Now, Leader Forever
The Young Wolves and the Police General
"As the Wind Blows, So Bend the Branches"
Neighbors
Chapter 13: Universities, Colleges, Degrees, and Lectures
The University of Ljubljana
The Jagiellonian University
Poland: A Nongovernmental Institution
Poland: The Capital
The Catholic University and "My Memorial"
The Woodrow Wilson Center, or The Secret My Wife Kept for Seven Years
Harvard, the Sakharov College, and Scotch Whisky
Connecticut to New Haven to Yale
The Largest Private University in the Nation's Capital
England, 2017
London
Oxford
A Discovery
Cambridge
Time Out in Oxford, Kansas
Chapter 14: My Wider World
The Federal Republic of Germany
China
Brazil, Uruguay, Cabo Verde
Flying on the Vice President's IL-62
Mongolia
Japan
South Korea
France
A State Visit
On Dignity and Honor
An Encounter with a Prophet
Paris: The Institute d'Etudes Politiques
A Mexican Wedding in Spain
Austria: A Viennese Waltz
A Slap in the Face for Russophiles
An Edifying Example
Mexico
Mexico's Holy Places
Mexico's Pyramids
Chapter 15: A Pathological Condition
No Decency, No Dignity
The Sources and Components of Belarusian Statehood
The Presidential Candidates in the 2010 "Elections"
Hope for Deliverance
Chapter 16: The DAU Movie Studio-International in Status, Russian at Heart
Lev Davidovich Landau
London-2017: Piccadilly 1000
Both Authentic and Accessible
Chapter 17: The Passing Years, the Far and Near
Illustrated Micro-Essays on My Life, in No Particular Order
Chapter 18: Postscript
In Memoriam: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Translator's Note
Author's Introduction
Chapter 1: My Folks, Myself, and Our Elite
Grandparents, Parents, Family
About Myself: Chronology and Statistics
About Myself (or, Confessions of a Sovok)
Belarus, the Belarusians, the Elite
Moscow's Minions and/or Bad Apples That Some Revere to This Day
The Political and Creative Elite
Chapter 2: Batskaushchyna
Komarovka, My Little Motherland
June 1941
Remembered Forever
My School, My Teachers
My Mother's Wisdom
Artek
A Crossroads
My Undergraduate Days
When Work Is a Pleasure
Placement Time
Chapter 3: Academy, Plant, and University
Graduate Travels and the Daily Routine
The Radio Engineering Plant's Design Lab
Sasha and I Had a Pupil: Lee Harvey Oswald
The Return to My Alma Mater
The Department of Nuclear Physics and the Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy
Rave Reviews for My Candidate Dissertation, in Kharkov and Siberia
A Siberian Academician's Achilles Heel
Chapter 4: The Institute Was Good, but the University Was Better
A New Assignment
From No Party Affiliation to Party Intrigues
The Alma Mater Revisited
What Rutherford Recommended
Irresistible Force and Immovable Object
A Thing for Travel
The Sakharov College
The New First Secretary of the Belorussian Communist Party
Chapter 5: Chernobyl
How the University First Heard about the Chernobyl Disaster
Chernobyl and Gorbachev
The Culprits and the Guiltlessly Guilty
Fukushima and Chernobyl
Chapter 6: To Moscow, to the Halls of Power
The Mausoleum and the Kremlin
The Elections: My First, the District's Second
The First Congress
The People's Deputies of the USSR: Capacity, Competence, and Capability
Chapter 7: The Road to Viskuli
Trouble in "the Constellation of Equals"
A Daunting Precedent
Estonia: November 16, 1988
Lithuania: May 18, 1989
Latvia: July 28, 1989
Azerbaijan: September 23, 1989
Georgia: March 9, 1990
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic: June 12, 1990
Uzbekistan: June 20, 1990
Moldova: June 23, 1990
Ukraine: July 16, 1990
Belarus: July 27, 1990
Turkmenistan: August 22, 1990
Armenia: August 23, 1990
Tajikistan: August 24, 1990
Kazakhstan: October 25, 1990
Kyrgyzstan: December 15, 1990
Summing Up
Chapter 8: Enter the Lesser Actors
Declarations of Autonomy
Summing Up-And What Next?
Meanwhile, in Tatarstan...
Chapter 9: A Thumbs Down for Kebich, or "I Wish I'd Known Who My Drinking Buddy Was"
A Touching Missive
An Acquaintance Begins
A Pack of Liars
Pick a Boat and Stick with It
The Saga of the Nails
A Red Herring for the "Intellectuals"
Who Is Like Family to You?
Chapter 10: At Viskuli, in the Belavezha Reserve, December 7 - 8, 1991
The Invitation
Expanding the Guest List
How People Still Thought
Solidarity among Some Very Big Names
Arrivals by Air and Land
Viskuli, Day One
Second Thoughts
Late in the Evening of December 7, the Bathhouse
December 8
Who Called Gorbachev and Who Called Bush, and When?
Futile Doubts, Ratification
Speaking for the People
Aftermath
And Decades Later...
Chapter 11: Belarus and the United States
My First State Visit to the USA
Pennsylvania Avenue: Blair House to the Capitol
Downtime
Meeting President Clinton
Clinton in Belarus
Where to Now?
Chapter 12: The Intelligentsia and Politics
Politics and Art
The Party Hierarchy and Politicians
An Interclass Stratum
Our Belarusian Realities
An Academician Enticed
A Different Academician's Path
The University Maneuver
In the Role of Innocent Victim
Leader Now, Leader Forever
The Young Wolves and the Police General
"As the Wind Blows, So Bend the Branches"
Neighbors
Chapter 13: Universities, Colleges, Degrees, and Lectures
The University of Ljubljana
The Jagiellonian University
Poland: A Nongovernmental Institution
Poland: The Capital
The Catholic University and "My Memorial"
The Woodrow Wilson Center, or The Secret My Wife Kept for Seven Years
Harvard, the Sakharov College, and Scotch Whisky
Connecticut to New Haven to Yale
The Largest Private University in the Nation's Capital
England, 2017
London
Oxford
A Discovery
Cambridge
Time Out in Oxford, Kansas
Chapter 14: My Wider World
The Federal Republic of Germany
China
Brazil, Uruguay, Cabo Verde
Flying on the Vice President's IL-62
Mongolia
Japan
South Korea
France
A State Visit
On Dignity and Honor
An Encounter with a Prophet
Paris: The Institute d'Etudes Politiques
A Mexican Wedding in Spain
Austria: A Viennese Waltz
A Slap in the Face for Russophiles
An Edifying Example
Mexico
Mexico's Holy Places
Mexico's Pyramids
Chapter 15: A Pathological Condition
No Decency, No Dignity
The Sources and Components of Belarusian Statehood
The Presidential Candidates in the 2010 "Elections"
Hope for Deliverance
Chapter 16: The DAU Movie Studio-International in Status, Russian at Heart
Lev Davidovich Landau
London-2017: Piccadilly 1000
Both Authentic and Accessible
Chapter 17: The Passing Years, the Far and Near
Illustrated Micro-Essays on My Life, in No Particular Order
Chapter 18: Postscript
In Memoriam: Zbigniew Brzezinski
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