The Collective Memory and its Transformations: The Great War and the Battle for Independence in Lithuania (1914–1920)
The Collective Memory and its Transformations: The Great War and the Battle for Independence in Lithuania (1914–1920)
Author(s): Eugenijus ŽmuidaSubject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Social history, Politics and society, State/Government and Education, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Sociology of Politics, Sociology of Education, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: History; imagined community; collective memory; the Great War; memoirs; censorship;
Summary/Abstract: The author aims to discuss three topics using the memory research method. The first part discusses construction of the imagined community and collective memory of 19th century Lithuanian intellectuals in a country where education in the national language, and the printing of books and papers, were banned. The second part of the article presents the impact of the Great War and the struggle for independence on collective memory as revealed in memoirs written in the 1914–1940 period by fighters on the front lines, refugees, intellectuals, and people in the occupied country. The third part discusses the extinction of the Great War and the battle for independence from collective memory as a natural and specially constructed phenomenon, caused by the Soviet regime.
Journal: Interlitteraria
- Issue Year: XXVII/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 141-156
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
