The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War

Davoliute, Violeta

ISBN 10: 113820448X / ISBN 13: 9781138204485

Published by Routledge, London & New York, 2016

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London & New York: Routledge, 2016. Very Good condition. Flat, uncreased spine. Moderate shelfwear to the cover. Bright and shiny. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes Photo illustrated. Volume 95 from the BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. From the rear cover: "Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the horrors of World War II a special ferocity. Moreover, the fighting continued after 1945 with the anti-Soviet insurrection, crushed through mass deportations and forced collectivization in 1948-1951. At no point, however, did the process of national consolidation take a pause, making Lithuania an improbably representative case study of successful nation-building in this troubled region. As postwar reconstruction gained pace, ethnic Lithuanians from the countryside the only community to remain after the war in significant numbers were mobilized to work in the cities. They streamed into factory and university alike, creating a modern urban society, with new elites who had a surprising degree of freedom to promote national culture. This book describes how the national cultural elites constructed a Soviet Lithuanian identity against a backdrop of forced modernization in the fifties and sixties, and how they subsequently took it apart by evoking the memory of traumatic displacement in the seventies and eighties, later emerging as prominent leaders of the popular movement against Soviet rule.". First Softbound Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xx, 212pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War
• Publisher: Routledge, London & New York
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113820448X
• ISBN 13: 9781138204485
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: NOT a library discard
• Edition: First Softbound Edition.
• Condition: Very Good condition
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Synopsis

Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the horrors of World War II a special ferocity. Moreover, the fighting continued after 1945 with the anti-Soviet insurrection, crushed through mass deportations and forced collectivization in 1948-1951. At no point, however, did the process of national consolidation take a pause, making Lithuania an improbably representative case study of successful nation-building in this troubled region. As postwar reconstruction gained pace, ethnic Lithuanians from the countryside – the only community to remain after the war in significant numbers – were mobilized to work in the cities. They streamed into factory and university alike, creating a modern urban society, with new elites who had a surprising degree of freedom to promote national culture. This book describes how the national cultural elites constructed a Soviet Lithuanian identity against a backdrop of forced modernization in the fifties and sixties, and how they subsequently took it apart by evoking the memory of traumatic displacement in the seventies and eighties, later emerging as prominent leaders of the popular movement against Soviet rule.

About the Author

Violeta Davoliūtė 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).