THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND ITS RESOLUTION IN THE PROGRAMS OF THE PARTIES OF SOCIALIST DIRECTION THAT OPERATED ON THE TERRITORY OF BELARUS AT THE END OF THE 19TH AND BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY

The publication examines the ideological positions of the parties of the socialist trend on the territory of Belarus in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on the national question. The ideology of various socialist trends reveals their ideas about the definition of a nation and its characteristics, its place in the historical process. The program documents and journalism of the Belarusian populists, the BSG, the Socialist Revolutionary Party, the Polish Socialist Party, and various groups and parties of the Marxist trend reveal the relationships between their national and socialist ideals, proposals for solving the national question, the attitude to the right of nations to self-determination, and the state reorganization of Russia. The influence of these ideological positions on the further construction of Belarusian statehood is noted.