Greimas žurnale „Darbas“
Greimas and the Journal “Darbas”

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to reveal the story of collaboration between Algirdas Julius Greimas (1917–1992) and the Lithuanian-American Social Democratic journal “Darbas” (published from 1947 to 1960 by the Lithuanian Labor Association in the USA). Although this periodical had been published since 1947 it was in 1956 when Greimas wrote his first article for “Darbas”. He was probably encouraged by the “Demokratinio Darbo Talka”, an organization established in 1954 by a younger generation of left-wing intellectuals who had formerly belonged to the liberal “Šviesa” movement. Greimas agreed with their goals, their values, and their attitudes towards relations between the Lithuanian diaspora and Soviet-occupied Lithuania. Gradually he became one of the most important writers and had his own column. He was not only writing for the journal, but he was also putting a lot of effort into shaping the ideological stance of this periodical while not being afraid to criticize the editorial board or other writers for their lack of confidence in Socialism and for their inability to analyze the world from the Socialist point of view. While writing his own texts on history and other issues Greimas was trying to set a proper example of doing that. It sometimes even looks as if he was using a kind of soft mind-engineering instead of expressing his real opinion.

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