Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century

Experiences, Identities and Legacies
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31409-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Reihe: On the Boundary of Two Worlds

Population Displacement in Lithuania in the XXth Century: Experiences, Identities and Legacies is an edited volume written by historians from several countries offering a series of ground-breaking case studies on forced migration in Lithuania during and between the two World Wars. Starting with the premise that the mass movement of peoples during and after the Second World War needs to be understood in relation to the population displacement of the First World War, the authors draw on theoretical perspectives ranging from entangled histories, cultural theory and studies of nationalism to trace the ethnic, social and cultural transformation of Lithuanian society caused by the displacement of Lithuanians, Poles, Jews and Germans.

Contributors are: Tomas Balkelis, Daiva Dapkute, Violeta Davoliute, Andrea Griffante, Ruth Leiserowitz, Klaus Richter, Vasilijus Safronovas, Vitalija Stravinskiene, Arunas Streikus and Theodore R. Weeks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balkelis, Tomas

Davoli&

Davoliute, Violeta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Demographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgement
List of contributors

I. POPULATION DISPLACEMENT DURING WORLD WAR ONE AND ITS AFTERMATH
CHAPTER 1
Andrea Griffante. Making the Nation: Refugees, Indigent People, and Lithuanian Relief, 1914-1920
CHAPTER 2
Tomas Balkelis. Forging a “Moral Community”: the Great War and Lithuanian Refugees in Russia
CHAPTER 3
Klaus Richter. Displacement without Moving: Secession, Border Changes and Practices of Population Politics in Lithuania (1916 – 1923)

II. POPULATION DISPLACEMENT IN THE KLAIPEDA REGION
CHAPTER 4
Vasilijus Safronovas. Population of the Klaipeda Region and the Balance of Power in the Eastern Baltic Region, 1919-1960
CHAPTER 5
Ruth Leiserowitz. Population Shifts and Displacement in the Memel Region

III. POPULATION DISPLACEMENT DURING WORLD WAR TWO AND ITS AFTERMATH
CHAPTER 6
Theodore R. Weeks. Repopulating Vilnius, 1939-1949
CHAPTER 7
Vitalija Stravinskiene. Between Poland and Lithuania: Repatriation of Poles from Lithuania, 1944-1947
CHAPTER 8
Violeta Davoliute. A “Forgotten” History of Soviet Deportation: The Case of Lithuanian Jews
CHAPTER 9
Arunas Streikus. Religious Life in a Displaced Society: the Case of Post-War Lithuania, 1945-1960
CHAPTER 10
Daiva Dapkute. Lithuanian Diaspora: from Displaced Persons to Diaspora Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Tomas Balkelis is a visiting scholar at the Centre for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University and a senior researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. He is the author of The Making of Modern Lithuania (Routledge, 2009). His research fields include nationalism, population displacement and paramilitary violence in the Baltic States.

Dr. Violeta Davoliute is a visiting researcher at MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies, Yale University and a senior researcher at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute in Vilnius. She is the author of The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War (Routledge, 2013). Her research is focused on the history of the Lithuanian elites under Nazi and Soviet rule, questions of trauma and memory, and the social and cultural effects of forced modernization, sovietization and mass displacement in the Baltic States.