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- Title
CONSTRUCTING THE NATIONAL PAST DURING THE ENLIGHTENMENT: THE CASES OF LITHUANIA, BELARUSSIA, UKRAINE AND SLOVAKIA.
- Authors
GLEMŽA, LIUDAS
- Abstract
The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment opened the way to the centralization and unification of the state territories in the 18th century. These trends became a great challenge in the construction of historical past for the national states established in the 20th century which saw the continuity of their national history since the Middle Ages till the national movements of the 19th century. For this reason, the Age of Enlightenment is most often seen as a transitional period. The article focuses on the events of the 18th century portrayed in the national history syntheses of the four states. It is observed that in the national historiographies of the analysed countries, selected historical events are attributed a greater significance than they really had and tend to be identified with the later processes.
- Subjects
ENLIGHTENMENT; INTERNATIONALIZED territories; TWENTIETH century; HISTORIOGRAPHY; LITHUANIAN history; UKRAINIAN history; SLOVAKIAN history
- Publication
Darbai ir Dienos, 2013, Issue 60, p161
- ISSN
1392-0588
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7220/2335-8769.60.7