The First World War in Belarus

Archival documents and materials on the war

• Belarus on the eve of the war
• Administrative-territorial division and population structure in Belarus
• Situation in the production and social spheres
• Entry of European countries into the war
  • Military and political situation in Europe
  • First year of the war in the territory of the Russian Empire
• Military operations in Belarusian lands
• Official documents of the Russian Government, the Army High Command and local authorities relating to military activities
• Course of combat operations
• Weapons and equipment
• Life on the front line in the Russian army
• Protest moods and mutinies on Russia’s Western Front
• Participants in military operations, soldiers of the Russian army
• Situation in unoccupied Belarusian lands
  • Regulations on civilian conduct in war time
  • Activity of enterprises and institutions in war conditions and the supply of the Russian army
  • Economic situation, labour conditions, moods and protest actions of the civilian population
  • Refugees and resettlers
  • Struggle against so-called German dominance and espionage
  • Assistance to war victims
  • Political situation
• Situation in occupied Belarusian lands and the end of war in Belarus
  • Occupation regime and the civilian population
  • Social and political activity
  Social and political activity
  • Resistance to the Occupation
  • Peace negotiations
• Consequences of the war
• War damage
• Fate of soldiers who suffered in combat
• Memory of the war
• Commemorative events
• Memorials and historic sites
• War in Belarusian literature
• War in scholarly works, publications and official documents