The New Culture Wars in Lithuania: Trouble with Soviet Heritage
- In recent years Lithuania has witnessed many heated debates and an extreme polarization of opinions regarding its Soviet heritage. At the epicentre of the most recent debate are four group statues representing major social groups of the Soviet period – industrial workers, peasants, students and soldiers – which were erected on the Green Bridge in Vilnius in 1952. In 2010 the controversy over what to do with the slowly decaying statues – remove or renovate - revealed a cultural conflict that hasIn recent years Lithuania has witnessed many heated debates and an extreme polarization of opinions regarding its Soviet heritage. At the epicentre of the most recent debate are four group statues representing major social groups of the Soviet period – industrial workers, peasants, students and soldiers – which were erected on the Green Bridge in Vilnius in 1952. In 2010 the controversy over what to do with the slowly decaying statues – remove or renovate - revealed a cultural conflict that has lasted for the past five years without reconciliation.…
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| Document Type: | Article |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25626/0034 |
| Creator and project details | |
| Author: | Rasa Baločkaitė |
| Publisher: | Imre Kertész Kolleg |
| Editor: | Joachim von PuttkamerGND, Michal KopečekGND, Włodzimierz BorodziejGND |
| Publishing Institution: | Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft |
| Title details | |
| Title (English): | The New Culture Wars in Lithuania: Trouble with Soviet Heritage |
| Parent Title (English): | Cultures of History Forum |
| Note: | Bei Interesse an einer Wiederveröffentlichung wenden Sie sich bitte an das Imre Kertész Kolleg: imre-kertesz-kolleg@uni-jena.de zwecks Nutzungsrechten. |
| Release Date: | 2019/01/10 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/10/18 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2015/04/12 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject indexing | |
| DDC-Classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
| Collections: | Cultures of History Forum (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena) |
| Tag: | independence Lithuania; Soviet regime; Vilnius; communism; statues |
| GND Keyword: | Litauen; Kommunismus; Vilnius; Unabhängigkeit; Sowjetisierung |
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| File Size: | 2387 KB |
| MIME-Type: | application/pdf |
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| Licence / Usage Agreement (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |
