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- Title
HISTORY OF THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA: INTERPRETATIONS OF THE YOUNG BELARUSIANS AND LITHUANIANS.
- Authors
KAMUNTAVIČIUS, RŪSTIS
- Abstract
A hypothesis was raised that the knowledge of the young Belarusians and Lithuanians would be different on the most important facts and topics of the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, such as the foundation of the state, the first ruler and the first capital, the Vilnius issue, as well as the cultural and religious nature of the country. Drawing on the answers of the first and the second year students of Humanities and Social Sciences from J. Kupala University, Grodno (105 respondents) and Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas (184 respondents) the hypothesis was confirmed. The article analyzes the causes of this phenomenon, discussing the most important historiographical works of the 20th century which formed the national narratives of both countries. The Belarusian as well as the Lithuanian national narratives acknowledge the whole history of the Grand Duchy but are ethnographically and territorially limited, and focus only on the modern frontiers and on the modern nations. As a result, it s not surprising that people feel and understand the common past in different ways.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA (Grand Duchy); BELARUSIANS; LITHUANIANS; SOCIAL science research; NARRATIVES; HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY
- Publication
Darbai ir Dienos, 2013, Issue 60, p137
- ISSN
1392-0588
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7220/2335-8769.60.6