Znaczenie pisma „Znad Wilii” w okresie t ransformacji systemowej, w budowaniu pozytywnej t ożsamości polaków wileńszczyzny
The importance of the magazine „Znad Wilii” during systemic transformation, in building a positive identity of Poles at the Vilnius region

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article: The importance of the magazine “Znad Wilii” in the years 1989–1994 in building a positive identity of Poles at the Vilnius region, is an analysis of topics that were discussed at the journal, I will also try to reflect the prevailing social climate among Poles at the Vilnius region during the democratic transition, the collapse of the Soviet Union regime. An attempt to take the analysis of that issue is important because of the fact that local Poles efforts to establish a more intensive relations with Poland. For example by through the development of mutual relations between the Civic Parliamentary Club (Obywatelski Klub Parlamentarny), Solidarity, and the Lithuanian Sajūdis (this issue was raised, inter alia, in the article: Beginning of a common path – Początek wspólnej drogi), importance of the Polish minority in Lithuania, as well as a common history and memory of the First Republic – Respublica Serenissima and its importance in shaping contemporary identities of the nations of Central and Eastern Europe. Articles that were published during this period in the journal “Znad Wilii” are certainly interesting material, worthy of analysis in this study, also because of the important historical period in which they were submitted.

• Details
• Contents