Nuo kariaunos iki kariuomenės: istoriografinės karinės organizacijos problemos

ENThis paper provides a review of the historiographical assessment of the Lithuanian military organisation model. Henryk Łowmiański, who worked during the interwar period, offered a binary system consisting of (1) war-bands and (2) levy in mass (the commoners). During the Soviet period the historians Vladimir Pashuta and Romas Batura attempted to define the military organisation model in a longer period spanning outside the 13th century; however, they paid little attention on the changes within the society and the state, and thus came up with a rather simple lineal model. Finally, after Lithuania regained its independence, the outstanding studies of Edvardas Gudavičius, Alvydas Nikžentaitis, and Darius Baronas provided the most detailed analysis of the military organisation model. The abovementioned studies took into account the differences of different centuries and progress of the development of the state offering a step- by-step military organisation model. However, though many historians tried to define the Lithuanian military organisation model and its development, the overall historiography still lacks a sound position on this issue. Despite of several well-argumented and source-based military organisation models offered (in the abovementioned studies by H. Łowmiański, E. Gudavičius, and D. Baronas), most of the socio-military structure models look inarticulate: they don’t use contemporary terms and the identified structures are labelled with different paramilitary terms.