The emergence of the evangelical churches in Belarus (the late XIXth – early XXth centuries)

Abstract

The article deals with the rising process of Evangelical movement in Belarus in the late XIXth – early XXth centuries: its main stages and the factors of its spread are determined with the help of supporting source material. The geopolitical changes which took place during I World War and Russian revolutions are viewed as the triggers for the movement development. They created the conditions for the spread of the movement, and at the same time formed various political and legal conditions for the development of the movement in the BSSR and Western Belarus.