Belarus


Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
War's Unwomanly Face
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
King Stakh's Wild Hunt
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Red Crosses
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
Alindarka's Children
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999
Paranoia
Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship
Down Among the Fishes
The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga (New Yiddish Library Series)
Wave of Terror
Milena by Olja KnezevicFieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana ZabuzhkoВремя сэконд хэнд by Svetlana AlexievichDepeche Mode by Serhiy ZhadanVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
Modern Slavic literature
60 books — 31 voters
Red Crosses by Sasha FilipenkoThe Dead Feel No Pain by Vasil BykovHis Battalion & Live Until Dawn by Vasil BykovAlpine Ballad by Vasil BykovPack of wolves by Vasil Bykov
Best of Belarusian Literature
29 books — 2 voters

God's Playground by Norman DaviesTeutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior by Mark GaleottiThe Other Prussia by Karin FriedrichDimitri and the false Tsars by Hans BaumannKing Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther by Natalia Nowakowska
Early Modern Eastern Europe
24 books — 6 voters
Notes from a Small Island by Bill BrysonWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  FurstenbergPaul & Kiki's Guide to Vacationing in Italy by Paul  StuartExpats Spain by Mark ShearmanAegean Dream by Dario Ciriello
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Europe
127 books — 106 voters


Norman Davies
The title ‘Lord of All-Rus'’ did not possess much basis either in history or in current reality. It came into the same category as that whereby the kings of England laid claim to France. In the 1490s, two-and-a-half centuries after all traces of a united Kievan Rus' had been destroyed, it had the same degree of credibility that the king of France might have enjoyed if, in his struggle with the German Empire, he had proclaimed himself ‘Lord of all the Franks’. By that time, it conflicted with the ...more
Norman Davies, Europe: A History

Ананіч спярша абурыўся фамільярнасцю звароту і тонам пытання, але хутка скеміў, што выхапіць у шніпс можна вельмі хутка, таму зноўку зняў картуз і апусціў вочы.
Александр Чернухо

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