Review for Wyszynski Robert "Birth or death of a nation. Nation-building activitiy of Belarusian and Buryat elites after the collapse of Soviet Union"

Review for Wyszynski Robert Birth or Death of a nation. Nation-building activitiy of Belarusian and Buryat elites after the collapse of Soviet Union. The review is devoted to a work by Polish sociologist Robert Wyszynski Birth or Death of a nation. Nation-building activitiy of Belarusian and Buryat elites after the collapse of Soviet Union. The author analyzes the main questions of a book. Wyszynski compares the process of national identity and rebirth of two ethnic groups - Buryats and Belarusians. The author tries to answer the question does modern society give a chance to a nation’s rebirth. The author shows the role which was played by Buryat and Belorussian elites in a nation-building process. Wyszynksi used the methods of field research and inquiry between these two groups. Review gives a short analyze of the book and its scientific value.