On Political Terror during the Soviet Expansion into Lithuania, 1918–1919

Česlovas Laurinavičius

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015, vol. 46, issue 1, 65-76

Abstract: This article deals with a noticeable anomaly of Bolshevik expansion in Lithuania during 1918–1919: the refusal of the Soviet authorities to resort to terror to subdue the local population in order to export the world revolution. The author argues that the Soviets avoided political terror in Lithuania because they did not treat the Lithuanians as a nation capable of sustaining their own state. In fact, anti-Bolshevik forces employed more terror than the Bolsheviks in their attempt to drive out the Reds and uproot Lithuanian support for the Communist regime. The Lithuanian left-wing government of Mykolas Sleževičius sought to contain its radicalized military and to preserve a soft-handed relationship with the local Bolshevik government.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2015.1009687

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