THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATIONAL PROBLEMATICS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MILITARY CATASTROPHE IN M. GORETSKY’S SHORT STORIES

Abstract

The article deals with the understanding of the problems of the Belarusian people’s national tragedy during the war and the revolutionary events of the first decades of the 20th century in M. Haretsky short stories. The national range of problems is typical for the writer in conditions of World War I, civil and Soviet-Polish wars and the formation of Belarusian statehood. In this period the writer concentrates on the problem of the national identification and self-determination of Belarusians. In the short stories M. Haretsky not only shows the contradictions of the difficult time, but looks for the reasons of crises and ways out of them. He asserts the possibility and necessity of every individual to preserve the human dignity in any situation. It allows us to consider the author’s works in terms of overcoming of the tragic events.