Severo-Zapadnyi krai

[Elena Gapova]

As after WWI the Western powers were attempting to establish “true
ethnographic frontiers" in the region based on the right of people for
self-determination, which was proclaimed not only by Vladimir Lenin, but
also by Woodraw Wilson, they must have given the region a name (e.g. there
was the Paris conference on the matter, when it was decided that Lithuania
would be its own country, while Belarusian territories would be splitted
between Russia and Poland etc.). And then any discussion of the" Polish
question" involves Severo-Zapadnyi krai (this might have been an issue with
some American historians).

I am writing an entry on a Belarusian woman-poet of the turn-of the-century
for the encyclopedia of women's movements in Eastern and Central Europe
(19th-early 20th century), hence my quest for the standard term. She was
born in what was then Severo-Zapadnyi krai, and her inspiration was in
Belarusian national revival of the time.

e.g.


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In view of the far lesser degree of terminological exactitude in these
matters in English when there actually was a "Russian Empire", I would
suggest simply "North-Western Russia" as a sort of "standard translation" of
"Severo-Zapadnyi krai ", or maybe, if one wants to be more precise, albeit a
little more clumsy, the "North-Western Krai (in italics) of the Russian
Empire", possibly plus a footnote explaining  things in more detail.

Robert Orr

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