Was the Union Really Erased from the Modern Lithuanian Statehood Projects in the Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries Cover Image

Czy naprawdę unia została wykreślona z projektów Litwy nowoczesnej w końcu XIX – na początku XX wieku?
Was the Union Really Erased from the Modern Lithuanian Statehood Projects in the Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries

Author(s): Rimantas Miknys
Subject(s): History, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: idea of the (Lublin) Union; Lithuanian national movement; Lithuanian statehood projects; “Lithuanian federalism”; Lithuanian and Polish historiography

Summary/Abstract: The article off ers a critical assessment of the deeply entrenched view in Lithuanian and Polish his-toriography that the idea of the (Lublin) Union was erased from the Lithuanian statehood projects created within the Lithuanian national movement in the late nineteenth–early twentieth centuries. Summarising the critical assessments made against this idea, several theses were formulated based on which further research could be conducted that could explain the eff ects of the Union on the formation and development of “Lithuanian federalism”.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 221-234
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish