Belorussian Communist Organisation
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The Belorussian Communist Organisation was a communist group in Belarus
, led by Vladimir Ignatovsky. It emerged out of the organisation 'Young Belarus' (Маладая Беларусь), which was founded in the Minsk Teaching Institute in 1917. In 1918 the group became an autonomous section of the Belorussian Party of Socialists - Revolutionary. On 1 January the group broke away and formed the BKO as a separate party. In August the same year BKO merged into the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Belorussia.
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
, led by Vladimir Ignatovsky. It emerged out of the organisation 'Young Belarus' (Маладая Беларусь), which was founded in the Minsk Teaching Institute in 1917. In 1918 the group became an autonomous section of the Belorussian Party of Socialists - Revolutionary. On 1 January the group broke away and formed the BKO as a separate party. In August the same year BKO merged into the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Belorussia.