Речь Посполитая в белорусской историографии 1920 - 1930-х гг

ENThe article identifies the main conceptual provisions of the Belarusian historical thought of the period between the First and Second World Wars, which relate to the history of Rzeczpospolita. By its nature, Belarusian historiography was then national democratic and national romantic. The position of Belarusian historians, writers, public figures was set forth in popular science, educational, journalistic literature in Soviet Belarus (until the end of the 1920s), Western Belarus as part of Poland, among Belarusian emigrants in Lithuania, Czechoslovakia and other countries. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was recognized as a multi-ethnic (Belarusian-Lithuanian) state, only a part of the radical Belarusian authors considered the GDL to be exclusively a Belarusian state. The 16th century was promoted as the “golden age” in the history of Belarus. The Union of Lublin in 1569 and the Church of Brest Union in 1596 were evaluated negatively, as they contributed to the decline of statehood on. Divide of Rzeczpospolita at the end of the 18th century were also negatively evaluated. Since the end of the 1920s, Soviet Belarus underwent dramatic changes in historical science. Rzeczpospolita was regarded as a state that was alien and hostile to the Belarusian people. Keywords: Rzeczpospolita, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, history of Belarusian statehood, polonization.