WHAT DO WE TEACH ABOUT OUR NEIGHBOURS

Vital Kirylenka,Nadzeya Kushner,

Siarhei Lukashanets

Curriculum

History and Social Science Courses History of Belarus World History People. Society. State

Years of studying Basic secondary school (V-IX grades) Upper secondary school (X-XI grades) University course (1st year)

World History Vikings Sweden – Thirty years War (1618-1648) North War (1700-1721) Alfred Nobel Award Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940)

World Contemporary History: 1918-2000

RUSSIALITHUANIA

POLAND

UKRAINE

LATVIA

20%69%

100%75%25%

58% 42%

11%

29% 14%

57%

Connotation positivenegative neutral

COUNTRY / CATHEGORY LATVIA LITHUANIA POLAND RUSSIA UKRAINE1 PAGES (%) 0,4 (0,1%) 0,8 (0,3%) 4,4 (1,5%) 110 (37%) 1,2 (0,4%)

2 CONTEXT POLITIC 3 4 12 33 7ECONOMY 2CULTURE 3

Belarus neighbours

Latvia Lithuania Poland Russia Ukraine

Latvia Polatsk duke Uladzimir and Riga foundation (1201) Struggle between Livonian knights and Belarusian

Dukes of Kukeinas and Gercike (XIII century) Riga-Belarusian trade cooperation Participation of Belarusian-Lithuanian State in

Livonian War (1558-1582) Belarusian people in Latvia

Lithuania The formation of Great Dutchy of Lithuania, Rus

and Samogitia (XIII century) Lithuanian-Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic

(February 1919-July 1920) Transition of Vilnia to Lithuania in 1939

Grunvald Battle (1410)

Poland Invitation of Great Duke of Lithuania Jahajla to

the Polish throne (1385) Unions between Great Dutchy and Poland (1385,

1401, 1413) Establishing of Rzecz Pospolita of Both Nations

(1569) Polonization on Belarusian nobility and spread of

Roman Catholic Church (XVI-XVIII) Uprisings 1794, 1830, 1863 Riga Peace Treaty (1921) Western Belarus as a part of Poland (1921-1939)

Rzecz Pospolita of Both Nations (1569)

Russia Kiev Rus Moscow-LIthuanian Wars (XV-XVIII) Inclusion of Belarusian territories in Russian

Empire (1772, 1793, 1795) Uprisings (1794, 1830-31, 1863-64) Russian Empire policy in Belarus (rusification,

serfdom and its abolition in 1861, reforms of Alexander II)

Revolutions (1905, 1917), World War I Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR World War II

Russian Army moves to Lithuania (XVI century)

Ukraine Kiev Rus Blue Water Battle (1363) and liberation of Ukraine

lands by the Great Dutchy from tatars Cossacks Wars (XVII) Ukranian and Belarusian Democratic Republics

(1918) Western Ukraine and Western Belarus in Poland

(1921-1939) Independent Ukraine and Belarus States (1991)

Cossacks in XVII century

Different Views Latvia – no problems Lithuania – the essence of Great Dutchy of

Lithuania, Vilnia/Vilnius history Poland – National heroes and famous people

origins, the rule of Pilsudski regime Russia – belarusian nation existance, slavic

lands of Great Dutchy of Lithuania Ukraine – Polesie region origins

ConclusionWe have many topics to argue but we are together

and happy to discuss these questions...

Unity in variety...