On Tendencies of the Politics of Remembrance in Contemporary Lithuania
Vasilijus Safronovas
Forum AI: Human Sciences in the Empire: History and Falsification
SUMMARY:
Lithuanian scholar, Vasilius Safronovas, proposes an analytical overview of the politics of remembrance in present-day Lithuania. He traces transformations of historical concepts of the Lithuanian past throughout the twentieth century and shows how internal and external political factors have led to hegemonization of some particular versions of the past and memories of particular social and ethnic groups of the Lithuanian population. The author’s main concern is current memorial constructions of the dominant canon of the history of Lithuanian statehood.
Notes
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[2]Jacques Le Goff. History and Memory. New York, 1992. P. 54.
[3]О понятиях и их значениях см.: Vasilijus Safronovas. Expressions of Domination in the Discourse of the Representations of the Past // V. Michelkevičius, A. Narušytė, L. Michelkevičė (Eds.). Mapping Lithuanian Photography: Histories and Archives. Vilnius, 2007. Pp. 137-159.
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[6]George L. Mosse. The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich. New York, 1975.
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