The Sovietization of Lithuania after WWII: modernization, transculturation, and the lettered city

Violeta Davoliūtė

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2016, vol. 47, issue 1, 49-63

Abstract: This article approaches the Sovietization of the Baltics in the light of two critical notions developed by the noted Latin American critic Angel Rama: “narrative transculturation” and “the lettered city.” By revisiting key moments in the development of Soviet Lithuanian culture and intellectual class against a backdrop of forced collectivization, urbanization, and modernization, the article aims at a novel interpretation of what Sovietization meant in the Lithuanian context, the significance of de-Stalinization and cultural modernism during the Thaw in the 1960s, and the cultural preconditions for the emergence of the popular movement against Soviet rule in the late 1980s.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2015.1103512

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