Archival documents and materials

Preconditions for the emergence of nation-states on the ethnic territory of Belarus in 1918-1920

Additional archival documents and materials

Map “The Great Duchy of Lithuania in the 15th and first half of the 16th century”. Photocopy. Printed. Atlas gistoryi Belarusi ad starazhytnastsi da nashykh dzyon. Minsk, 2006. P. 20. Belarusian. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on Belarusian statehood in 1918-1920s)
Map of the partitions of the Polish Commonwealth in 1772-1795. The inclusion of Belarusian lands in the Russian Empire. Photocopy. Printed. Gistoryia belaruskai dzyarzhaunastsi u kantsy XVIII – pachatku XXI st. Book 1. Minsk, 2011. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on Belarusian statehood in 1918-1920s)
Map “Belarus in the First World War” showing Belarusian areas occupied by German troops by November 1917. Photocopy. Printed. Gistoryia belaruskai dzyarzhaunastsi u kantsy XVIII – pachatku XXI st. Book 1. Minsk, 2011. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on Belarusian statehood in 1918-1920s)
“Memorandum on the situation in Eastern Belarus”. Article by A. Lutskevich (excerpt on the Belarusian situation in the late 19th century until 1918). Vilno. 3 April 1918. Typescript with corrections. Autograph of A. Lutskevich. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 134, l. 31-38)
“The socialist movement in Belarus”. Article by I. Dylo. Typescript, manuscript, autograph of [Т. Gartny]. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 53, op. 1, d. 117, l. 1-21 ob.)
“From the history of Belarusian movement”. Article by L. B. (A. Smolich). Clipping from the magazine “Belorusskaya Rada”. 1917. № 2. (BGAMLI, f. 340, op. 1, d. 701, l. 1-2)
“Introduction to the October. (On the history of Soviet Belarus)”. Article by D. Zhilunovich. Printed. Handwritten notes by A. Kavka. Photocopy of clippings from the magazine “Polymya”. 1923. № 5-6. P. 141-148. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 340, op. 1, d. 674, l. 13-20)
“Materials on the state, legal and judicial system in Belarus”. Report by Deputy Chairman of the Petrograd Belarusian Military Organization, D. Sobolevsky, in five chapters: – “Declaration of the rights of Belarusian citizens” (p. 5-7); – “The foundations of the state system of the Belarusian National Republic as a component of the All-Russian Federation” (p. 8-28); – “Provisional Regulation on the elections to the Belarusian Provisional Assembly” (p. 29-59); – “Provisional Regulation on the judicial system and legal procedures in the Belarusian National Republic” (p. 60-71); – “Provisional Regulation on the administration of justice in the Belarusian National Republic” (p. 72-79). 1917. Typescript. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 278, l. 4-79)
Telegramme from the Minsk Post and Telegraph Office to the Dukory Post Office on the seizure of power by the Provisional Government and the supply of post and telegraph communications at the front and in the rear. 8 March 1917. Copy. Typescript. (The State Archives of Minsk Region, f. 510, op. 1, d. 1, l. 131-131 ob.)
Announcement of the Belarusian Committee on the common meeting of the Vitebsk Belarusian People’s Union for discussing the programme and the national needs of the Belarusians. Before 11 May 1917. Printed. Belarusian, Russian. (The State Archives of Vitebsk Region, f. 967, op. 7, d. 3, l. 1)
Letter by TsK RSDRP Secretary E. Stasova concerning the creation of the North-Western Region, including Minsk and Vitebsk. Petrograd. 31 July 1917. Typescript, manuscript on TsK RSDRP letterhead. Autograph of E. Stasova. (The State Archives of Vitebsk Region, f. 10050-p, op. 1, d. 3, l. 1)
Declaration of the Belarusian Military Organization announced by Deputy Chairman of the Petrograd Belarusian Military Organization D. Sobolevsky at the All-Russian Democratic Conference. 18 September 1917. Typescript with handwritten notes. (The State Archives of Vitebsk Region, f. 967, op. 7, d. 3, l. 15-16 ob.)
Minutes of the meeting of the All-Russian Democratic Conference (excerpt from the speech by I. Voronko on the necessity to unite all forces of revolutionary democracy and national autonomies in the Russian Federative Democratic Republic). 14-22 September 1917. Typescript. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 292, l. 34-35)
Participants at the joint meeting of the Great Belarusian Council (Rada) and the Central Military Council (Rada): P. Bodunova, I. Voronko, L. Voitikova (Z. Veras), I. Dvorchenibn, L. Dubeikovsky, I. Dylo, K. Kondratovich, I. Lesik, P. Medelka, S. Rak-Mikhailovsky, A. Chervyakov, Sh. Yadvigina, etc. 15 October 1917. Photo. (BGAMLI, f. 399, op. 1, d. 14, l.1)
Resolutions of the Congress of Belarusian soldiers of the Western Front and representatives of Belarusian organizations in the 12th Army, Baltic Fleet and the Rumanian Front. 18-24 October 1917. Printed. (The State Archives of Minsk Region, f. 6, op. 1, d. 1, l. 8-9 ob.)
Appeal of the Provisional Belarusian Regional Organizational Bureau on the consolidation of the Belarusians to protect the Russian statehood under the motto of one and undivided Great Russia by the unification of local organizations and individuals on a state basis. Minsk. 5 November 1917. Printed. (The State Archives of Vitebsk Region, f. 967, op. 7, d. 3, l. 12)
Programme of the Provisional Belarusian Regional Organizational Bureau. Minsk. 7 November 1917. Printed. (The State Archives of Vitebsk Region, f. 967, op. 7, d. 3, l. 7-8)
Appeal of the Vitebsk Belarusian People’s Union and the Union of Orthodox and Common Faith Parishes in Polotsk Eparchy to vote at the elections to the Constitutional Assembly for candidates loyal to the Orthodox church and the Russian government. Before 12 November [1917]. Printed. (The State Archives of Vitebsk Region, f. 967, op. 7, d. 3, l. 17-17 ob.)
“Ethnographic map of the Belarusian tribe”. Compiled by academician E. Karsky in 1917. From the cartographic collections of S. Aleksandrovich. Photocopy. Printed. Michaluk D. Belaruskaya Narodnaya Respublika u 1918-1930 gg. Lya vytokau belaruskai dzyarzhaunastsi. Smolensk, 2015. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on Belarusian statehood in 1918-1920s)
“Projects of the autonomous and republic system in Belarus”. Report by Deputy Chairman of the Petrograd Belarusian Military Organization, D. Sobolevsky, in two chapters: – “Plan of the autonomous structure of Belarus as part of the All-Russian Federation” (Draft of the 1917 May Constitution of Belarus) (p. 81-84); – “The foundations of the republic structure of Belarus as part of the All-Russian Federation” (Project worked out by the State-Legal Section of the First All-Belarusian Congress in 1917) (p. 85-96). The report was read at the Congress of Belarusian Soldiers of the Northern Front on 15-22 November 1917 in Vitebsk, printed in the newspaper “Volnaya Belarus” № 19, 20, 22, 1917. Typescript. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 278, l. 80-96)
Minutes of the meeting of the Bolshevik fraction of the Soviet of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants Deputies of the Western Region and Western Front. 2 December 1917. Copy. Typescript. (The State Archives of Minsk Region, f. 6, op. 1, d. 1, l. 10-10 ob.)
Appeal “To the Belarusian People” by the Great Belarusian Council, the Central Military Belarusian Council and the Belarusian Executive Committee of the Western Front in connection with convening the Congress of Representatives of the Belarusian People. Minsk. Before 5 December 1917. Printed. (The State Archives of Vitebsk Region, f. 967, op. 7, d. 3, l. 4-4 ob.)
Notes on the organization of the Belarusian national army in local places. Photocopy. Clippings from the magazine “Belorusskaya Rada”. 1917. № 6, № 8. (BGAMLI, f. 340, op. 1, d. 707, l. 3, 7)
Questionnaire for members of the First All-Belarusian Congress. 5 December 1917. Photocopy 1990s. Printed. (BGAMLI, f. 500, op. 1, d. 396, l. 8)
“The All-Belarusian Congress”. Minutes of the meetings of December 5, 6, 7, 8, 1917. Photocopy. Clippings from the magazine “Belorusskaya Rada”. 1917. № 6, № 7. (BGAMLI, f. 340, op. 1, d. 707, l. 3-6)
Resolutions of the First All-Belarusian Congress held on 5-18 December 1917 in Minsk. Printed. (The State Archives of Vitebsk Region, f. 967, op. 7, d. 3, l. 14 ob.)
Appeal of the Belarusian Minsk Post and Telegraph Council announcing the support of the First All-Belarusian Congress. Minsk. 30 December 1917. Printed. (The State Archives of Vitebsk Region, f. 967, op. 7, d. 3, l. 14)

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Additional archival documents and materials from others sources:

Collection of documents and materials “The State Borders of Belarus”. Vol. 1 (May 1917 – November 1926) / compiled by V.E. Snapkovsky [et al]. – Minsk, 2012. – 195 p.

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