The Formation of Belarusian Statehood in 1918-1920s

• Chronology of events (overview)
  
• Archival documents and materials (online exhibition)
  
  • Preconditions for the emergence of nation-states on the ethnic territory of Belarus in 1918-1920
  • Processes of nation building and state formation on the ethnic territory of Belarus in 1918-1920s
    • 1918
    • 1919
    • 1920
    • 1921-1928
  • Leaders of Belarusian national revival and state building in 1918-1920s
  • The Belarusian nation-state formation in 1918-1920s in Literature, Art and Toponymy 
• Archival editions

Abbreviations
Institutions:
BGAKFFD – Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings
BGAMLI – Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art 
BelNITsED – Belarusian Research Center for Electronic Records 
BNK – Belarusian National Committee
BSG– Belarusian Socialist Party (Gromada)
VKP(b) – All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)
VRK – Military Revolutionary Committee
VChK, VCheka – All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage under the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR
VTsIK – All-Russian Central Executive Committee
VTsIK SSSR – All-Union Central Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
GPU – State Political Administration
Inbelkult – Institute of Belarusian Culture (now the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus)
KP(b)B – Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Belarus
KPZB – Communist Party of Western Belarus
NARB – National Archives of the Republic of Belarus
Narkomnats – People’s Commissariat of Nationalities
NKVD – National Commissariat of Internal Affairs
Obliskomzap – Regional Executive Committee of the Western Region and Front
RKKA – Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army
RKP(b) – Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)
RSDRP(b) – Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (Bolshevik)
SNK – Council of People’s Commissars
SovDep – Soviet (Council) of Deputies (Cossacks’, Workers’, Peasants’ and Soldiers’)
TsB – Central Bureau
TsB KP(b)B – Central Bureau of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Belarus
TsIK – Central Executive Committee
TsIK BSSR – Central Executive Committee of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
TsIK SSSR – Central Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
TsK – Central Committee
TsK KP(b)B – Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Belarus
TsK KP Belarus and Lithuania – Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus and Lithuania
TsK RKP(b) – Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)
TsK RSDRP(b) – Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (Bolshevik)

Territorial units:
BNR – Belarusian National (Democratic, People’s) Republic
BSSR – Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
LitBel – Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belarus, SSRLiB
RSFSR – Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
SSRB – Socialist Soviet Republic of Belarus
SSRLiB – Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belarus, LitBel
SSSR, USSR – Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
UNR – Ukrainian National (Democratic, People’s) Republic

Archive and library indexes:
f. – fond (record group)
op. – opis (series)
d. – delo (file)
l. – list (folio)
ed. – edition
Vol. – volume
P. – page