Jonas Pranas Aleksa apie žemės ūkio vaidmenį tautos ir valstybės gyvenime

ENThe article deals with the attitude towards the role of agriculture in the life of nation and statė by J.P. Aleksa (1879-1955). In the very youth J.P. Aleksa grew interested in sočiai life, and he choose sociological studies in Moscow University. It was in 1900, but in 1902 the young student was locked up in Moscovv prison because he defended his Lithuanianism. We mušt remember that at the tirne a great part of Lithuania suffered under the hard regime of Russian Empire, even the Lithuanian print was suppressed. The little part of Lithuania which was occupied by Prussia, had some more freedom, but it was the time when the occupants wanted to rub out even the name of our country. J.P. Aleksa returned to studies of sociology in 1904-1907, and in 1914-1915 he studied agriculture and zootechnics in Warsaw. So J.P. Aleksa came to received Lithuanian independence in 1918 with his affirmed attitudes towards nation and statė. In his view the Lithuanian nation and statė will be alive only if the agriculture, farming and the private property will prosper. When the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, J.P.Aleksa was deported to Siberia, to Krasnojarsk land. It was in 1948, and later on he never set his eyes on Lithuania. So his sociological and life vievvs, attitudes, ideas were not ever realised. In present independent Lithuania the returning of pri vate land property meets various difficulties, but the investigation of Jonas Pranas Aleksa' ideas begins to go on. [From the publication]