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Kastus Kalinouski For our freedom: Works, documents Minsk. 1999. 464 pages. In Belarusian. Hardcover. ISBN 985-6318-41-6
Published by Bielaruski Knihazbor, Minsk, Belarus |
The book belongs to the collection "The Historic-Literary Monuments" of the series "Bielaruski Knihazbor" (Belarusian Book Collection) developed in the Yanka Kupala Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
The present book is prepared by Dr. Genadz Kisyalou, a historian and literary critic. It is the most complete present day set of Kalinouski's creative and documentary heritage, including not only the authentic texts of his wide-known works "Muzickaja Prauda" ("Peasants' Truth"), "Pismy z-pad sybenicy" ("Letters from beneath the Gallows"), but also the epistolaria, testimonies to the investigation, different rebellion documents. The evidencies of his contemporaries about the views of the Belarusian revolutionary democracy founder, rebellion publications of the Kalinouski "school" are widely presented. The supplement has the letters if his brother Victor, showing the common efforts of the Kalinouski brothers on studying the Belarusian, Polish, Lithuanian historic sources. The Belarusian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian archives and libraries materials are used in the book. The laborious textological, attributive, historical and literary investigations undertaken gave an opportunity to replenish essentially the corpus of the known works by Kalinouski, as well as to transform some of them to the "Dubia" section. The book is equipped with profound scientific references. Besides detailed commentary it includes "Glossary of the Polish and dialect words in the Belarusian texts", brief chronicle of life and activities of Kalinouski, expanded name index with biographical references on all the mentioned in the book persons.
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