The Unknown War

Anti-Soviet armed resistance in Lithuania and its legacies
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-18511-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 282 g

Reihe: Europa Country Perspectives

The armed anti-Soviet resistance movement which arose in the second half of 1944 in Lithuania, as Soviet forces began to reoccupy the Baltic countries and Galicia, sparking a nearly decade-long fierce military conflict, has yet to become established in the common narrative of contemporary European history. However, controversy regarding the nature of this `war after the war' and its legacies constitutes one of the core elements in the contemporary information warfare waged by Russia against its neighbouring countries. The origins of various distortions surrounding the story of the partisan war in the western borderlands of the Soviet Union can even be traced to the final stages of that war, when Soviet propaganda sought to discredit the campaign as a battle waged by criminal elements. In this example of a historical event charged with controversial memories and geopolitical connotations, a thorough academic approach is extraordinarily instrumental.

Responding to the growing need for historical research capable of providing international readers with the latest findings in the thematic field under question, six scholars from Vilnius University address the diverse aspects of this phenomenon as well as its role in the culture and politics of memory. Toward this end, this analysis – among the most comprehensive explorations of this history to date – is being released in both Lithuanian and English.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Streikus, Ar&

Streikus, Arunas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Glossary of vernacular terms and abbreviations

Introduction

ARuNAS STREIKUS

Part One: A Strange Long War

1 Lithuanian Anti-Soviet Armed Resistance in the Context of 20th Century Partisan Wars

KESTUTIS GIRNIUS

2 Who Were the Lithuanian Partisans?

DAINIUS NOREIKA

3 Partisan Supporters: The Unseen Participants of the Resistance

ENRIKA KRIPIENE

Part Two: From a Memory War to a Heroic Narrative

4 The Memory of the Armed Anti-Soviet Resistance during the Cold War

MINGAILE JURKUTE

5 The Partisan War in Lithuanian Memory Culture after 1990

AISTE PETRAUSKIENE

6 Archaeology in the Study of the Anti-Soviet Lithuanian Partisan War

GINTAS VELIUS

Index