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The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania

Author : Violeta Davoliūtė
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134693583
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania by : Violeta Davoliūtė

Download or read book The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania written by Violeta Davoliūtė and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the horrors of World War II a special ferocity. Moreover, the fighting continued after 1945 with the anti-Soviet insurrection, crushed through mass deportations and forced collectivization in 1948-1951. At no point, however, did the process of national consolidation take a pause, making Lithuania an improbably representative case study of successful nation-building in this troubled region. As postwar reconstruction gained pace, ethnic Lithuanians from the countryside – the only community to remain after the war in significant numbers – were mobilized to work in the cities. They streamed into factory and university alike, creating a modern urban society, with new elites who had a surprising degree of freedom to promote national culture. This book describes how the national cultural elites constructed a Soviet Lithuanian identity against a backdrop of forced modernization in the fifties and sixties, and how they subsequently took it apart by evoking the memory of traumatic displacement in the seventies and eighties, later emerging as prominent leaders of the popular movement against Soviet rule.

The Making of Modern Lithuania

Author : Tomas Balkelis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134051131
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Lithuania written by Tomas Balkelis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that – contrary to contemporary Lithuanian nationalist rhetoric – Lithuanian nationalism was modern and socially constructed in the period from the emergence of the Lithuanian national movement in the late nineteenth century to the birth of an independent state in 1918. The book brings into sharp focus those aspects of the history of Lithuania that earlier commentators had not systematically explored: it shows how, in this period, the nascent political elite fashioned its own and the emerging nation’s identity. Moreover, factors such as the elite’s social isolation, educational experience, marital strategies and narrowly based, fragmented and uncoordinated political activities were crucial factors in shaping identity and nation-building. It demonstrates how the elite was often in conflict with the peasantry, the religious establishment and other ethnic groups, and how critical considerations such as class, religion, displacement and ethnicity – rather than national ideology – were. The book’s conclusion that Lithuanian nationalism is a construct emerging from modern social forces is highly significant for understanding nationalism and contemporary political developments in Eastern Europe more generally.

The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania

Author : Violeta Davoliūtė
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134693516
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania by : Violeta Davoliūtė

Download or read book The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania written by Violeta Davoliūtė and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the horrors of World War II a special ferocity. Moreover, the fighting continued after 1945 with the anti-Soviet insurrection, crushed through mass deportations and forced collectivization in 1948-1951. At no point, however, did the process of national consolidation take a pause, making Lithuania an improbably representative case study of successful nation-building in this troubled region. As postwar reconstruction gained pace, ethnic Lithuanians from the countryside – the only community to remain after the war in significant numbers – were mobilized to work in the cities. They streamed into factory and university alike, creating a modern urban society, with new elites who had a surprising degree of freedom to promote national culture. This book describes how the national cultural elites constructed a Soviet Lithuanian identity against a backdrop of forced modernization in the fifties and sixties, and how they subsequently took it apart by evoking the memory of traumatic displacement in the seventies and eighties, later emerging as prominent leaders of the popular movement against Soviet rule.

The Making of Modern Lithuania

Author : Tomas Balkelis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113405114X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Lithuania written by Tomas Balkelis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the making of modern Lithuania, arguing that, contrary to contemporary Lithuanian nationalist rhetoric, Lithuanian nationalism was modern and socially constructed in the period from the emergence of the Lithuanian national movement in the late nineteenth century to the birth of an independent state in 1918.

Historical Dictionary of Lithuania

Author : Saulius A. Suziedelis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810875365
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Lithuania by : Saulius A. Suziedelis

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Lithuania written by Saulius A. Suziedelis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Lithuania will serve as a useful introduction to virtually all aspects of Lithuania's historical experience, including the country's relations with its neighbors. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.

OECD Public Governance Reviews Lithuania: Fostering Open and Inclusive Policy Making

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264235760
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Lithuania: Fostering Open and Inclusive Policy Making written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review analyses open government principles and practices in Lithuania with the aim to support the government of Lithuania in its current and future public governance reforms.

Constructing Lithuania

Author : Vytautas Petronis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Lithuania written by Vytautas Petronis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War, Revolution, and Nation-making in Lithuania, 1914-1923

Author : Tomas Balkelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199668027
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis War, Revolution, and Nation-making in Lithuania, 1914-1923 by : Tomas Balkelis

Download or read book War, Revolution, and Nation-making in Lithuania, 1914-1923 written by Tomas Balkelis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Tomas Balkelis explores how the Lithuanian state was created and shaped by the Great War from its onset in 1914 to the last waves of violence in 1923. As the very notion of independent Lithuania was constructed during the war, violence is seen as an essential part of the formation of Lithuanian state, nation, and identity. War was much more than simply the historical context in which the tectonic shift from empire to nation-state took place. It transformed people, policies, institutions, and modes of thought in ways that would continue to shape the nation for decades after the conflict subsided. In telling the story of the post-WWI conflict in Lithuania, War, Revolution, and Nation-Making in Lithuania, 1914-1923 focuses on the soldiers and civilians involved in the conflict, rather than the strategies and acts of politicians, generals, or diplomats. The volume's two main themes are the impact of military, social, and cultural mobilizations on the local population, and different types of violence that were so characteristic of the region throughout the period. The actors in this story are people displaced by war and mobilized for war: refugees, veterans, volunteers, peasant conscripts, POWs, paramilitary fighters, and others who took to guns, not diplomacy, to assert their power. This is the story of how their lives were changed by war and how they shaped the society that emerged after war.

Latinitas in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Author : Giovanna Siedina
Publisher : Firenze University Press
ISBN 13 : 8866556742
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (665 download)

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Book Synopsis Latinitas in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by : Giovanna Siedina

Download or read book Latinitas in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania written by Giovanna Siedina and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains articles concerning the influence of Latinitas in the territory now occupied by Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus'. The articles, all published in English, range from history to literature and to cultural history and the history of ideas. They analyze the issue of building an identity, either real or imagined, from different points of view. Among the most interesting topics are the classical origins of myths and ideas that have helped build the national identities of those that constituted the ethnic mosaic of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the role of Neo-Latin poetry, as a conveyor of Latinitas, in the development of national identities. Because of the significance of Latinitas for both common European cultural traditions and the national cultures, literatures and languages of Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine, it is to be hoped that the subject will continue to attract a good level of attention in the future.

(Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation

Author : James H. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462096562
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis (Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation by : James H. Williams

Download or read book (Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation written by James H. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the shifting portrayal of the nation in school textbooks in 14 countries during periods of rapid political, social, and economic change. Drawing on a range of analytic strategies, the authors examine history and civics textbooks, and the teaching of such texts, along with other prominent curricular materials—children’s readers, a required text penned by the head of state, a holocaust curriculum, etc.. The authors analyze the uses of history and pedagogy in building, reinforcing and/or redefining the nation and state especially in the light of challenges to its legitimacy. The primary focus is on countries in developing or transitional contexts. Issues include the teaching of democratic civics in a multiethnic state with little history of democratic governance; shifts in teaching about the Khmer Rouge in post-conflict Cambodia; children’s readers used to define national space in former republics of the Soviet Union; the development of Holocaust education in a context where citizens were both victims and perpetuators of violence; the creation of a national past in Turkmenistan; and so forth. The case studies are supplemented by commentary, an introduction and conclusion.

Nation-building and Identities in Post-Soviet Societies

Author : Andrea Friedli
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643802188
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Nation-building and Identities in Post-Soviet Societies by : Andrea Friedli

Download or read book Nation-building and Identities in Post-Soviet Societies written by Andrea Friedli and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research by social scientists on multicultural and multilingual post-Soviet societies is manifold. However, there rarely exists a dialogue between academic fields, traditions and ideologies. This book critically reunites different academic generations and traditions, different disciplines, and different geographical and cultural backgrounds by keeping the plurality of the approaches. The contributions discuss the roles of ideologies, education, and ethnic, linguistic, and religious identities in the post-Soviet nation-building processes. The included case studies show continuities and discontinuities in the ideological and political aspects of nation-building and identity management in post-Soviet societies. (Series: Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology / Freiburger Sozialanthropologische Studien, Vol. 47) [Subject: Social Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Soviet Union]

Making Russians

Author : Darius Staliūnas
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022671
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Making Russians written by Darius Staliūnas and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Russians is a valuable and insightful examination, based on a solid archival foundation, of the nationalities policies in tsarist Russia's northwestern borderlands of Lithuania and Belarus. Making Russians explores the various strategies of Russification that the imperial government pursued largely unsuccessfully in this region. The book is essential reading for all students of imperial Russia. It has applications for the present as well, when issues of national identity continue to engage the citizens of both Russia and the states of the Former Soviet Union.John Klier, University College London

Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy

Author : Eglė Rindzevičiūtė
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy written by Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Political Construction Sites

Author : Pal Kolsto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429966776
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Political Construction Sites written by Pal Kolsto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has provided scholars with tremendously rich material for the study of comparative nation building. Not since the decolonization of Africa in the 1960s have so many new states been established in one stroke in one region. The post-Soviet states, moreover, have all the necessary prerequisites for fruitful comparison: a number of similarities, but also significant differences in terms of size, culture, and recent history. In order to survive in the long run, modern states normally must have a population that possesses some sense of unity. Its citizens must adhere to some common values and common allegiance towards the same state institutions and symbols. This does not means that all inhabitants must necessarily share the same culture, but they should at least regard themselves as members of the same nation. Strategies to foster this kind of common nationhood in a population are usually referred to as 'nation building'. After a decade of post-Soviet nation building certain patterns are emerging, and not always the most obvious ones. Some states seem to manage well against high odds, while others appear to be disintegrating or sinking slowly into oblivion. To a remarkable degree the former Soviet republics have chosen different models for their nation building. This book examines the preconditions for these endeavors, the goals the state leaders are aiming at, and the means they employ to reach them. }

Doing Business with Lithuania

Author : Marat Terterov
Publisher : GMB Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1905050623
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Doing Business with Lithuania written by Marat Terterov and published by GMB Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in the pre-EU-accession period, this E-Book edition of Doing Business with Lithuania has been updated to take account of the post-accession changes to the legal and fiscal environment. It remains a definitive appraisal of the economic system and investment climate, including an examination of the legal structure and business regulation, information on the financial sector and unique best practice on all aspects of trading with and investing in Lithuania. The guide also provides an overview of key sectors of trade and investment.

Investment Guides: Lithuania 1998

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264163689
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Investment Guides: Lithuania 1998 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Investment Guide for Lithuania identifies those areas of economic activity which present opportunities for foreign investors, provides the investor with comprehensive information relating to the political, economic, financial and legal framework, and assesses the regulatory environment.

OECD Public Governance Reviews Review of Lithuania’s National Agenda on the Prevention of Corruption Strengthening Public Sector Integrity Strategies

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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264445714
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Review of Lithuania’s National Agenda on the Prevention of Corruption Strengthening Public Sector Integrity Strategies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the process for developing the Lithuania’s National Anticorruption Programme (NAPC) for 2022-2033. It assesses the NAPC’s past accomplishments as well as challenges in priority areas, and draws lessons for the coming period.