THE PEASANTRY OF THE BELORUSSIAN PROVINCES OF THE LATE 18TH – FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE SOVIET POST-WAR HISTORIOGRAPHY

The article examines the trends and directions of research into the history of the Belarusian peasantry in Soviet historical science in the post-war period (1945–1991). The socio-political relevance of this article is substantiated by the significance of the peasantry as a demographic, economic and cultural basis of the Belarusian ethnos. The introduction provides a brief overview of research on the problem under consideration. The main part analyzes the development of Soviet historiography of the history of the peasantry based on the problematic field of research, and identifies a number of issues relevant to historians of the period under study. A conclusion is made about the need for further comprehensive study of domestic post-war historiography of the history of the peasantry of the late 18th – first half of the 19th centuries.