The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and modernity in the wake of war - Couverture rigide

Davoliūtė, Violeta

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415714494 ISBN 13 : 9780415714495

Editeur : Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Violeta Davoliūte is a researcher and freelance journalist based at the Department of History, Vilnius University. She has published widely in the fields of memory, trauma and cultural studies in Eastern Europe. Her most recent book is Maps of Memory: Trauma, Identity and Exile in Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States. Vilnius, 2012 (co-edited with T. Balkelis).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415714494
• ISBN 13: 9780415714495
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible