Oleg Latyszonek
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Oleg Łatyszonek (Belarusian: Алег Латышонак, Aleh Latyshonak) (b. May 27, 1957) is a historian from Bialystok, Poland, of Belarusian ancestry. His interests and his Ph.D. are the research of early cultural identity of Belarusians and the building of the Belarusian nation. He is with the Deparment of Belarusian Culture, University of Bialystok.
Oleg Latyszonek was involved with the "Solidarity" political movement in 1980s and was imprisoned for assistance in publishing of illegal bulletins. In post-Communist Poland, Latyszonek has been involved in setting up the Belarusian minority movement, the Association of Belarussians in Poland.[1] He is the chairman of the Belarusian Historical Society, Poland.
Latyszonek is the driving force of the "Radio Racja" ("Radio Reason") radio station that broadcasts from Bialystok in Belarusian language targetting the Belarusians in both in Poland and Belarus, as well as the Polish minority in Belarus. [2]
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- „Bialoruskie formacje wojskowe 1917-1923” ["Belarusian Military Units 1917-1923"], Bialystok, 1995, ISBN 8390306859 (Polish) (book review, in Belarusian)
- (With E. Mironowicz) „Historia Bialorusi od polowy XVIII do konca XX wieku” ["History of Belarus from the Mid-18th to the End of the 20th Century"], Bialystok, 2002 (Polish) (book review, in Belarusian)
- "From White Russia to Belarus", in: Annus Albaruthenicus, no. 5, 2004.
