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