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Belarusian Soviet Foodways

Historical period

The BSSR: collectivisation, a quarter of the population killed between 1941 and 1944, near-total reconstruction, the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food, factory canteens, standardised GOST products, and a rural tradition that survived in villages and dachas rather than in print.

Atlas — where and when

What is recorded

  • Belarus lost roughly a quarter of its population between 1941 and 1944 and was largely rebuilt afterwards. Collectivisation, wartime destruction and Soviet standardisation between them broke much of the transmission of rural foodways, which is why the modern revival works from ethnography. documented

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