Book, bread, cross, and whip : the construction of Lithuanian identity in imperial Russia : disertacija
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Lietuvos ir Lenkijos santykiai; Lietuvos ir žydų santykiai; Nacionalinė sąmonė; Lithuanian-Polish relations; Lithuanian-Jewish relations; National consciousness.
ENThis dissertation seeks to examine the formation and development of Lithuanian national consciousness from the 1860rs to the outbreak of World War I. Structurally, it focuses on four central crises that precipitated mass engagement and, as critical events, served to redefine and popularize some cardinal elements in Lithuanian political culture. These events (the rebellion of 1863, the 1893 Kraziai church massacre, the 1905 revolution, and the Duma elections of 1906-1912) were defining moments in an emerging national memory; as the foci of popular attention, they generated intense resonance and corresponding riches in archival and published sources. That chronological spread enabled me to examine the changing formulation, projection, and reception of ideas about national identity, the nation's "land and culture," and its relationship to the other ethnic groups in this multiconfessional, multi-national area of the Russian Empire. The dissertation examines not only how different Lithuanian groups and outsiders represented "the Lithuanian,” but how these representations changed in these four critical moments of the national experience.National identity interacts with social reality and follows changes in the latter. Social institutions create patterns of behavior and rituals that are reinterpreted over and over again, entrenching identities and adapting them to new social conditions. The imperial regime through Russification created conditions in Lithuania that were extremely unfavorable for the creation of independent, let alone ethnic, institutions, such as clubs, parties, and professional organizations. Practically, only the Catholic Church functioned as a semi-independent institution. Therefore, the Church and Catholicism became a very important factor and milieu in generating Lithuanian identity. Economic and political factors further reinforced the emergence of the national identity through creation of intellectual and mercantile elite. The non-violent political culture, shared both by elites and general populace, enabled Lithuanians to resist the Russification by creating underground schools, societies, book smuggling, and emigration networks. This dissertation provides a social and cultural history of how in different ways, Lithuanians came to define themselves and the "other.” That encounter was interactive and dynamic: hence the dissertation also discusses Lithuanian-Polish and Lithuanian-Jewish relations that became increasingly dominant in the period between the 1905 revolution and 1914.
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