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The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

Autor Violeta Davoliūtė
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 dec 2013
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415714495
ISBN-10: 0415714494
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 21 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 21 black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction: Misplaced Memories  1. Modernity and Tradition between the Wars  2. War, the City and the Country  3. Reconstruction and Nation Building  4. Engineers of Urban Souls  5. A Soviet Lithuanian Renaissance  6. Soviet Modernity and its Limits  7. The Rustic Turn  8. The Rustic Revolution  Epilogue: Memory’s Many Returns

Recenzii

"The book is a solid study on contemporary Lithuanian history, admittedly tailored to historians in general and Baltic scholars in particular, but which might appeal to a broader audience too." FRANCESCO LA ROCCA, Central European University
"Davoliūtė’s engaging book makes it clear that the Soviet period should be viewed less as a parenthesis in Lithuania’s grand narrative than as a 50-year period that, for better and for worse, profoundly shaped modern Lithuania." KEVIN C. O’CONNOR, Gonzaga University
"The book is very timely, well-written, and thought-provoking. It certainly marks the qualitative development of studies of Lithuanian national culture beyond internalist, institutional accounts of folk culture and language-based ethnic nationalism by explicating underlying social mechanisms that enabled these particular discourses of national culture to rise to prominence. As such, Davoliūtė’s study is an important step toward the acknowledgment of a greater social complexity underpinning Soviet and post-Soviet culture, and will certainly stimulate further studies in this direction." - Volume 15 of Ab Imperio in 2014

Descriere

Lithuania suffered in the course of the twentieth century successive horrific invasions, significant border changes and large scale population displacements. One consequence of these traumatic events is that different protagonists constructed radically different historical narratives, which have in turn been used by ruling regimes and oppositions, to reinforce their own identity. This book discusses these various constructed historical narratives and identities, focusing especially on the construction, and dismantling, of "Soviet Lithuania". Because Lithuania was fought over so much, it exemplifies the degree to which the identity of both regimes and oppositions is a mental construct.