Attitudes towards the Soviet past in Lithuania: three strategies

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Straipsnis / Article
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Attitudes towards the Soviet past in Lithuania: three strategies
Authors:
Grybkauskas, Saulius
In the Journal:
Donauraum, 2018, vol. 56, no. 1/2, p. 15-23
Subject Category:
LT
20 amžius.
Summary / Abstract:

ENHow deeply does the integration into the European Union reshape Lithuanians’ understanding of the Soviet past? While one could say that behavior strategies and today’s political trends arise from Lithuania’s own history, especially its Soviet past meeting new challenges due to rapid integration, I would argue that it is possible to look at these processes from another side and envisage how the new political and social situation is re-actualizing questions on its Soviet history. It is incredible that more than 25 years after the Soviet collapse we still feel the direct consequences of Sovietization and speak a lot about the homo Sovieticus, the Soviet Empire and Soviet influence on today’s society. This is not to say that the historical discourse stays in one place without any positive evolution. A certain stage of Lithuanian historiography has been reached that points to a variety of interpretations of Lithuanian nationalism in the Soviet years.

DOI:
10.7767/dnrm-2016-561-205
ISSN:
2307-289X; 0012-5415
Subject:
Istorija / History
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2023-01-13 14:35:25
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