Alena Marková
Society and Language
Číslo: 2/2022
Periodikum: Historická sociologie
DOI: 10.14712/23363525.2022.15
Klíčová slova: Belarusian society; national language; 1990s; post-socialist transformation; nationalism; national emancipation
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sparked a wave of political and national emancipation in its republics that led to the creation of
new successor states. This also applied to the former Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR),
which declared its independence on 27 July 1990. Even before this, however, a project concerning
a wholly new and groundbreaking law was introduced in the country for public debate. According
to the law, the Belarusian language – as the national language of the majority population – would
become the one and only state and official language in the republic.