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- Title
LOST IN FREEDOM: COMPETING HISTORICAL GRAND NARATIVES IN POST-SOVIET LITHUANIA.
- Authors
ALEKSANDRAVIČIUS, EGIDIJUS
- Abstract
The article analyzes changes in Lithuanian historiography, public space, and political decisions which occurred after 1990 and the restoration of independence. Freedom for History and the Humanities meant diverse opinions and the extension of limits of academic self-expression. After the existence of a single compulsory version of the grand narrative imposed for the Lithuanians by the Soviet occupiers "from the top", cultural memory space became filled with competing new narratives. The liberalization of academic historians and cultural researchers appeared to be often at odds with the broad masses' and politicians' interests of nationalism. Academic and popular discourses diverged and the control of political power in shaping the Lithuanian memory gradually increased. These changes are worth particular attention and reflection.
- Subjects
DECISION making in political science; HISTORIOGRAPHY; POLITICAL restorations; POLITICAL autonomy; NARRATIVES; LITHUANIAN history
- Publication
Darbai ir Dienos, 2013, Issue 60, p319
- ISSN
1392-0588
- Publication type
Article