Unknown War - Anti-Soviet Armed Resistance in Lithuania and Its Legacies

The 1944 armed anti-Soviet resistance movement in Lithuania has yet to become established in the common narrative of contemporary European history. Responding to the growing need for unbiased historical research, six scholars from Vilnius University address the diverse aspects of this phenomenon and its role in memory culture and politics.

List of contents

List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Glossary of vernacular terms and abbreviations
Introduction
AR¿NAS STREIKUS
Part One: A Strange Long War
1 Lithuanian Anti-Soviet Armed Resistance in the Context of 20th Century Partisan Wars
K¿STUTIS GIRNIUS
2 Who Were the Lithuanian Partisans?
DAINIUS NOREIKA
3 Partisan Supporters: The Unseen Participants of the Resistance
ENRIKA KRIPIEN¿
Part Two: From a Memory War to a Heroic Narrative
4 The Memory of the Armed Anti-Soviet Resistance during the Cold War
MINGAIL¿ JURKUT¿
5 The Partisan War in Lithuanian Memory Culture after 1990
AIST¿ PETRAUSKIEN¿
6 Archaeology in the Study of the Anti-Soviet Lithuanian Partisan War
GINTAS V¿LIUS
Index

Summary

The 1944 armed anti-Soviet resistance movement in Lithuania has yet to become established in the common narrative of contemporary European history. Responding to the growing need for unbiased historical research, six scholars from Vilnius University address the diverse aspects of this phenomenon and its role in memory culture and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Arunas Streikus
• Assisted by: Arūnas Streikus (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032185118
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3218511-8
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Europa Country Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, REFERENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, military history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Libertarianism, Revolutionary groups & movements, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, History and Archaeology, Demonstrations & protest movements, Revolutionary groups and movements