Soviet Belarus edited by Mikhas Charot

The book "Soviet Belarus" is a collection of selected articles from the newspaper of 1925–1929, edited by Mikhas Charot. Contribution: Anna Sevyarynets. There is no politics of the front lines here — only urban and rural life, crime, trials, hunting, reflections on Belarusization and the color of life at that time. A special honor is the archival appendix and memoirs of the newspaper's technical workers, typesetters and metronome pages. A unique look at Belarus through the lines of an old newspaper.

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Anna Sevyarynets' book "Soviet Belarus" is a collection of selected texts that were published during the times of Belarusization in the newspaper "Soviet Belarus", edited by the famous writer Mikhas Charot.
The book's overarching theme is Belarusian Soviet everyday life in the memory of a newspaper column. Belorussianization, city life, courts, the life of hunters – a panorama through newspaper reports. The book also contains a large archival appendix.
The book has five alphabetical indexes. A separate index is for geographical names, and there are several hundred of various Belarusian towns and villages there. You can read an article about each of them from that time.
The book also includes a large archive appendix. In the foreword to the book, Anna Sevyarynets tells the story of the newspaper and its editor, Mikhas Charot.

"Its main content is selected articles from the newspaper "Soviet Belarus" in 1925-1929. I deliberately did not include materials from the front pages, and there is no politics of that time. There is life in the city and village. The fate of ordinary people. There is crime of that time. There are discussions about Belarusization and national culture. The editorial book of orders, selected correspondence with state bodies (maybe the funniest part, to tell the truth), as well as my pride, I searched for these texts for three years without any hope of finding them — the memoirs of typesetters and metronome pages of the then Saubelia, that is, technical newspaper workers who are always forgotten when talking about the newspaper," — Hanna Sevyarynets.