Jurka Listapad

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Jurka Listapad
Юрка Лістапад
Jurka Listapad
Born7 April 1897
the village of Varkavičy (nowadays Slucak District, Minsk Region, Belarus).
Died5 July 1938 (aged 41)
Gulag
Cause of deathExecuted (posthumously exonerated)
Alma materTeachers College of Panevėžys
Occupationteacher, publicist
MovementBelarusian independence movement and anti-Soviet resistance

Jurka Listapad (Belarusian: Юрка Лістапад; 7 April 1897 - 5 July 1938) was an active participant in the Belarusian independence movement and anti-Soviet resistance, publicist and a victim of Stalin's purges of 1937-38.

Early years[]

Listapad was born on 7 April 1897 into a farming family in the village of Varkavičy, Slucak District, Minsk Province of the Russian Empire (nowadays Slucak District, Minsk Region of Belarus).[1]

In 1914 he graduated from a teachers college in Panevėžys and returned to his native Slucak.

After a spell as a teacher, Listapad moved to Minsk and worked in publishing. He also started writing as well as translating. His work “Sluckaje viasieĺlie” (Belarusian: Слуцкае вясельле, The Slucak Wedding) was published in 1920. He was an active member of several Belarusian pro-independence organisations, such as the National Committee and “Paparać-kvietka" (Belarusian: Папараць-кветка, The Fern Flower).[2]

Anti-Soviet Resistance and persecution[]

In 1920 Listapad was elected to the Belarusian Rada (Council) of Slucak and participated in the Slucak Uprising, an anti-Bolshevik pro-independence military campaign in central Belarus.[2]

Following the defeat of the uprising, he briefly lived in exile in the Second Polish Republic but returned to Slucak in 1922 and established an underground anti-Soviet organisation.[3]

He was arrested in 1925 and sentenced to five years in prison.[4]  He was re-arrested in 1930 and then again in 1933 after which he was sent to the Gulag.[1]

Death sentence and posthumous exoneration[]

In March 1938 Listapad was sentenced to death for “anti-Soviet propaganda”. He was posthumously exonerated during the Khrushchev Thaw in 1956.[1]

Works[]

  • Слуцкае вясельле (The Slucak Wedding) // Беларусь, 1920, No. 108—110
  • Узьбіліся на свой шлях (Whipped up in our Way) // Наша думка (Вільня), 1921, No. 9—10

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Юрка Лістапад – Рада Беларускай Народнай Рэспублікі" [Jurka Listapad - the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic] (in Belarusian). Retrieved 2021-06-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b Ул. Ляхоўскі, Ул. Міхнюк, А. Гесь. Слуцкі збройны чын 1920 г. у дакумэнтах і ўспамінах [Ul. Liachoŭski, Ul. Michniuk, A. Hieś. The Stucak  Uprising of 1920 in documents and memoirs] - 2-ое выд. дапрац. - Менск: Энцыклапедыкс, 2006. С. 289—290. - ISBN 985-6599-25-3 (In Belarusian)
  3. ^ Арлоў, Уладзімер (2020). ІМЁНЫ СВАБОДЫ (Бібліятэка Свабоды. ХХІ стагодзьдзе.) [Uładzimir Arłou. The Names of Freedom (The Library of Freedom. ХХІ century).] (PDF) (in Belarusian) (4-е выд., дап. ed.). Радыё Свабодная Эўропа / Радыё Свабода - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. pp. 178–179.
  4. ^ Слуцкі паўстанец. Працэс «Лістападаўцаў». [A rebel of Slucak. Listapadaŭcy's Process] // Беларускае слова : газэта. — 1926, 31 сакавіка. — № 8. — С. 2.(In Belarusian)
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