Transcript What do we learn about our neighbours?

WHAT DO WE TEACH
ABOUT OUR NEIGHBOURS
Vital Kirylenka,
Nadzeya Kushner,
Siarhei Lukashanets
Curriculum
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History and Social Science Courses
History of Belarus
World History
People. Society. State
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Years of studying
Basic secondary school (V-IX grades)
Upper secondary school (X-XI grades)
University course (1st year)
World History
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Vikings
Sweden – Thirty years War (1618-1648)
North War (1700-1721)
Alfred Nobel Award
Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940)
World Contemporary History:
1918-2000
COUNTRY / CATHEGORY LATVIA
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PAGES (%)
0,4 (0,1%)
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CONTEXT
POLITIC
ECONOMY
CULTURE
LITHUANIA POLAND RUSSIA
0,8 (0,3%)
4,4 (1,5%) 110 (37%)
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LITHUANIA
Connotation
positive
negative
neutral
75%
POLAND
58%
25%
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33
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UKRAINE
1,2 (0,4%)
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LATVIA
RUSSIA
100%
69%
20%
11%
UKRAINE
42%
29%
14%
57%
Belarus neighbours
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Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Russia
Ukraine
Latvia
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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
Lithuania
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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
Grunvald Battle (1410)
Poland
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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)
Rzecz Pospolita of Both Nations (1569)
Russia
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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
Russian Army moves to Lithuania
(XVI century)
Ukraine
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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)
Cossacks in XVII century
Different Views
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Latvia – no problems
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Lithuania – the essence of Great Dutchy of
Lithuania, Vilnia/Vilnius history
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Poland – National heroes and famous people
origins, the rule of Pilsudski regime
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Russia – belarusian nation existance, slavic
lands of Great Dutchy of Lithuania
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Ukraine – Polesie region origins
Conclusion
We have many topics to argue but we are together
and happy to discuss these questions...
Unity in variety...