Editing Belarusian language (section)

====Soviet Belarus====

In 1929–30, the Communist authorities of Soviet Belarus made a series of drastic crackdowns against the supposed "national-democratic counter-revolution" (informally "nats-dems" ({{langx|be|нац-дэмы|links=no}})). Effectively, entire generations of Socialist Belarusian national activists in the first quarter of the 20th century were wiped out of political, scientific and social existence. Only the most famous cult figures (e.g. [[Yanka Kupala]]) were spared.

However, a new power group in Belarusian science quickly formed during these power shifts, under the virtual leadership of the Head of the Philosophy Institute of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, academician {{ill|Semyon Volfson|ru|Вольфсон, Семён Яковлевич}}. The book published under his editorship, ''Science in Service of Nats-Dems' Counter-Revolution'' (1931), represented the new spirit of political life in Soviet Belarus.