The Influence of instruments of harmonisation of private law upon the reform of civil law in Lithuania

ENThe declaration of independence of Lithuania in 1990 was a natural consequence of the national movement that had started in 1988. This two-year concentration of change was a time of demonstrations, songs, and national euphoria. Thus it is no accident that this time is called a 'singing revolution'. It was also natural that the driving forces in those two years were feelings and emotions rather than rational thinking about the future after the main task - the declaration of independence -had been achieved. There is no surprise that nobody in those two years seriously discussed the model of the future legal system of Lithuania to be introduced in the aftermath of the declaration of independence. So Lithuanian society reached independence without a clear vision for the system of law, including private law, of the future independent Lithuania. The consequence of such inactivity was the temporary retention of the Soviet legal system.