The Emergency of Independent Lithuania in 1918 and two (un)realized institutional models of autonomy

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ENThe article discusses the development of the question of territorial and personal forms of autonomy in Lithuania as a method to integrate national minorities within the emerging statehood. The historical development of the ideas outlines the route to the Lithuanian political system through other countries that appeared on the map after World War I. Thus, the autonomous institutions were rather temporary in character, following patterns in other countries. Keywords: Lithuania; State building; Autonomy; Belarusians; Jews. [From the publication]

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