Belarusian People's Republic

Belarus, 1918–1919. Draft, not yet reviewed

During World War I, the Belarusian People's Republic was proclaimed by the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in its Second Constituent Charter on 9 March 1918. On March 25, under conditions of German occupation, the Third Constituent Charter proclaimed Belarus an independent and free state. The government of the Belarusian Democratic Republic never had power over the whole territory of Belarus. By December 1918, units of the Red Army had already entered Minsk.

Seat of power: Minsk

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

• The idea of creating a new Belarusian state was proposed in December 1917 by a group of delegates at the First All-Belarusian Congress in Minsk, but the congress was dispersed by the Bolsheviks.
• Many prominent figures of the BNR returned to the Belarusian SSR, only to be later repressed.
• Its government in exile is the Rada (Council) of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.

Picture

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Russia and the Central Powers, by which Russia withdrew from World War I.

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Sources

• Belarusian People's Republic (Wikipedia)
• Belarusian People's Republic (Wikidata)
• About the picture (Wikipedia)

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