1. WHAT DO WE TEACHABOUT OUR NEIGHBOURS

• Vital Kirylenka,

Nadzeya Kushner,

Siarhei Lukashanets

2. 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)

3. World History

Vikings

Sweden Thirty years War (1618-1648)

North War (1700-1721)

Alfred Nobel Award

Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940)

4. World Contemporary History:1918-2000 RUSSIA LITHUANIA POLAND UKRAINE LATVIA 20% 69% 100% 75% 25% 58% 42% 11% 29% 14% 57% Connotation positive negativeneutral 5. Belarus neighbours

Latvia

Lithuania

Poland

Russia

Ukraine

6. 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

7. 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

8. Grunvald Battle (1410) 9. 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)

10. Rzecz Pospolita of Both Nations (1569) 11. 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

12. Russian Army moves to Lithuania(XVI century) 13. 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)

14. Cossacks in XVII century 15. 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

16. Conclusion

• We have many topics to argue but we are together and happy to discuss these questions...

• Unity in variety...