Lithuania – Tensions

‘Tensions between the nation and the state: Strategies of symbolic nation-building in post-Soviet Lithuania’

April 1, 2017MariaADNo Comments

by Egle Kesylyte-Allix, Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Oslo Summary This paper examines the tensions that arise between the nation and the state in the process of symbolic nation-building in post-Soviet Lithuania. It investigates how nationhood and statehood are perceived in the legal, parliamentary and societal discourses of Lithuanian citizens who have spent…

The Soviet Union and where to find it: social discourses about Soviet symbols in Lithuania

February 1, 2017MariaADNo Comments

by Eglė Kesylytė-Alliks, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. On the 11 March 2017 Lithuania will be counting 27 years since the declaration of its independence from the Soviet Union. This period produced a generation of citizens who were socialized within the newly re-established state. How then does this generation relate to…