To browse Academia. Postwar Vilnius under late Stalinism provides an ideal case study for analyzing the evolution of collective identity under conditions of rapid geopolitical, demographic and social change. Collective biography and the discourse of memory provide a partial, but essential light into this murky period of Soviet Lithuanian history.
Appearing on the world stage in , Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements. The successive occupations of Stalin in and Hitler in , 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 with the anti-Soviet insurrection, crushed through mass deportations and forced collectivization in 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 β the only community to remain after the war in significant numbers β 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.
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