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Abstract
Postcommunist reality opens the way to a new approach to understanding Central Europe. The conceptual parameters of such an approach are a refusal to allow the concept "Central Europe" to be merged with that of Eastern Europe, and a vision of Belarus and the other new states of Central Europe as a unique sociocultural whole that cannot be thrown in with either Western or Eastern Europe, although they are inseparable from both. An awareness of the historical foundations and structure of this wholeness and of the vector of its geopolitical choice are the prerequisite and the leaven for reviving a "fatherland of small nations."