наследие Великого княжества литовского в исторической памяти современных белорусов

Santrauka

In Belarus different ideas about the role and the heritage of GDL exist in three main age groups of adults. In the older group (up to 1960-es inclusive) basic notions were formed in school years via soviet textbooks, and the notions are dominant to our time: GDL was an insignificant historical phenomenon, and the memory about them is not of current importance. President A. Lukashenko is the political leader who voiced these notions more than once. The second group can be conditionally named „children of perestroika”. These people have caught the period of the soviet ideology, and they learned history by old textbooks, but their views formed in the period of heated debates, when different points of view were opposed. Nevertheless, the idea of special importance of the GDL period is not characteristic for them, and in general they turned out to be unreceptive to the national-romantic myth. The youngest group formed views under conditions of independent Belarus. In school they learned history by new textbooks, where high emphasis was placed on the period of GDL. Importance of the period is axiomatic for most of them, but in specific interpretations. According to opinions expressed on Internet-forums, the idea of modern „lithuanism” is very popular among them. It means, in particularity, manifestation of identity with the political elite of GDL irrelative of their ethnic origin, that was not characteristic for the national-romantic myth.