Andrei Kotliarchuk, a Belarusian historian who works in Stockholm, proposes a concise survey of the history of Belarusian historiography. He shows that its current difficulties are determined to a significant degree by the absence in the Belarusian lands of higher educational institutions (from 1832 to 1921), Soviet repressions that targeted the newly formed Belarusian Historical School in the 1920s, and the feebleness of Soviet-era scholarship in Belarus (which did not have a single historical journal). The reinterpretation of the Belarusian past, stimulated by the discovery in Kuropaty near Minsk (1988) of mass graves filled with victims of Soviet repressions, led to the republication of books from the 1920s and the rise of new institutions and journals. With Lukashenko’s rise to power in 1995, the Soviet view of the past is once again being implanted in Belarus, opposition historians are being dismissed, and independent institutions shut down. The survival of Belarusian historiography (now emigre-based to a significant degree) essentially relies on the support of the international academic community.