The Face of the Revolution is Female

Minsk, summer 2020. A young woman in a sleeveless shirt dances along a black wall of special forces clad in black: Images like this one were seen the world over. Hundreds of thousands of courageous citizens from all social stratums are opposing the brutality of the regime with non-violence, creative diversity and decentralised self-organisation.

The events that have been unfolding in Belarus since the presidential elections on August 9, 2020, are far more than a regional protest movement against election fraud. History is being made in Minsk and many other cities of this widely unknown country situated between the EU and Russia. Female, peaceful, postnational – this is how the author characterises the change in her country and puts the events in the context of European and global emancipation movements.

»The book delivers more than the title promises. [...] The well-readable combination of analysis, theoretical classification and individual opinion also [appeals to] readers who have taken little or no interest in Belarus thus far.« Barbara Oertel, taz. die tageszeitung

»... an astute analysis of the pro-democracy movement and particularly of the role of women. « Claudia von Salzen, Der Tagesspiegel