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