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
- Archival editions
About the project
Russian version
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