Violeta Davoliute

The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania (eBook, ePUB)

Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134693580
• Artikelnr.: 40301170

Autorenporträt

Violeta Davoliute 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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Misplaced Memories 1. Modernity and Tradition between the Wars 2. War, the City and the Country 3. Reconstruction and Nation Building 4. Engineers of Urban Souls 5. A Soviet Lithuanian Renaissance 6. Soviet Modernity and its Limits 7. The Rustic Turn 8. The Rustic Revolution Epilogue: Memory's Many Returns

Rezensionen

"The book is a solid study on contemporary Lithuanian history, admittedly tailored to historians in general and Baltic scholars in particular, but which might appeal to a broader audience too." FRANCESCO LA ROCCA, Central European University

"Davoliut 's engaging book makes it clear that the Soviet period should be viewed less as a parenthesis in Lithuania's grand narrative than as a 50-year period that, for better and for worse, profoundly shaped modern Lithuania." KEVIN C. O'CONNOR, Gonzaga University

"The book is very timely, well-written, and thought-provoking. It certainly marks the qualitative development of studies of Lithuanian national culture beyond internalist, institutional accounts of folk culture and language-based ethnic nationalism by explicating underlying social mechanisms that enabled these particular discourses of national culture to rise to prominence. As such, Davoliut 's study is an important step toward the acknowledgment of a greater social complexity underpinning Soviet and post-Soviet culture, and will certainly stimulate further studies in this direction." - Volume 15 of Ab Imperio in 2014