Even though the First World War was caused by tension in the east of Europe, not so long ago, quite a number of historians, as if repeating the words of Winston Churchill, tended to portray the ...Eastern Front in Europe as an “unknown war”. Not only was the war in the east little known, but the remembrance of the war in Eastern Europe remains little investigated. Lithuania is one of the countries in the region where for a long time nothing was known about the remembrance of the Great War. Many historians argued that this kind of remembrance simply did not exist. The article invites us to reconsider this statement by paying attention to the question of how the merits of different actors in the struggle for national freedom were interpreted and represented in interwar Lithuania. Instead of painting a monolithic picture of Lithuania, the article proposes to look at its society as a fragmented construct, whose different parts offered a rather ambiguous answer to the question.
Miestų nacionalizavimo procesas – su nacionaline bendruomene besitapatinančiųjų žmonių pastangos įvairiais būdais tame mieste įsigalėti – ilgajame XIX šimtmetyje reiškėsi didelėje Vidurio Rytų ...Europos dalyje. Toks nacionalizavimas šiame regione beveik visais atvejais reikšdavo daugiakultūrio miesto transformavimą į „savąjį“ miestą, esą priklausantį vienai nacijai. Nors šio proceso tyrimus Europos istoriografijoje šiandien jau sudėtinga būtų įvardyti inovatyviais, lietuvių pastangų įsigalėti miestuose tyrimai šiuo metu tik įsibėgėja, o į daugelį klausimų, ypač susijusių su pradiniu šio proceso etapu, iki šiol neatsakyta. Straipsnyje, remiantis dabartine tyrimų padėtimi, aiškinamasi, ar lietuvių pastangos įsigalėti miestuose gali būti apibendrinamos ir kontekstualizuojamos pagal bendraregionį pavyzdį. Siekiama atsakyti į klausimą, ar regiono kontekste miestų lituanizacija buvo kuo nors išskirtinė. Nagrinėjama, kokie veiksniai nulėmė šios lituanizacijos specifiką.
This book is essential reading on the spatial concepts that two erstwhile neighboring cultures, Lithuanian and German, once associated with one physical space—a Lithuanian region in Prussia. Covering ...a period of five centuries, the author explores how, when, and, most importantly, why these concepts have been developed and transformed, regulating the spatial imagination of several generations. The study focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, presenting the narratives, representations, and geographic conceptions of the region that existed in these two national cultures. The volume shows how knowledge about “their own" space ended up serving as a tool for both Lithuanian and German political aspirations and how it challenged the spatial concepts about this area in the previous century.
In the 1920s and 1930s, public attention was mostly focused on two experiences of World War I in Lithuania: the misery of everyday life during the German occupation and the efforts of political ...actors to cope with that misery and struggle for national independence. A variety of other experiences of the Lithuanian population during the Great War attracted much less attention. This had a subsequent impact on how the importance of the Great War was represented to Lithuanians for several generations. This article presents an overview of the experiences of the Lithuanian population during the Great War with a focus on the quantitative data on those experiences.
This book deals with the spatial concepts that two erstwhile neighboring cultures, Lithuanian and German, associated with one physical space--a Lithuanian region in Prussia. Covering a period of five ...centuries, it explores how, when, and why these concepts have been developed and transformed regulating the spatial imagination of several generations.
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