The Sovietization of Lithuania after WWII: modernization,transculturation, and the lettered city |
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Authors: | Violeta Davoliūtė |
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Affiliation: | 1. Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius, LT-08150, Lithuaniavioleta.davoliute@lkti.lt |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis 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. |
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Keywords: | Lithuania Sovietization intellectuals colonialism urbanization modernization transculturation subjectivity |
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