Lietuvos istorijos studijos
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<p>Founded in 1992 and dedicated to publishing articles on Lithuanian past, its historical development, and statehood of the Lithuanian nation, development of material and spiritual culture, its interaction with other nations, place in the world civilisation. </p>Vilniaus universiteto leidykla / Vilnius University PressenLietuvos istorijos studijos1392-0448<p>Please read the Copyright Notice in <a href="http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/lietuvos-istorijos-studijos/journalpolicy">Journal Policy</a>. </p>How Rural Society Was Occupied
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<p>Apie Antano Terlecko disertaciją „Kolchozų visuomenės sukūrimas: Lietuvos kaimo sovietizacija 1940–1965 m.“ ir jos gynimą / On Antanas Terleckas’ Thesis „Creation a Kolkhoz Society: The Sovietization of Lithuanian Countryside (1940–1965)“</p>
Other-Kotryna Bėčiūtė
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2023-12-212023-12-2115916210.15388/LIS.2023.52.11Breaking the Myth of the „Chinese Wall“
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<p>Apie Leono Nekrašo disertaciją „„Pafrontė“: Valstybė ir visuomenė Lietuvos pasienyje su Lenkija 1920–1939 m.“ ir jos gynimą / On Leonas Nekrašas’ Thesis „„Frontline Area“: State and Society in Lithuania’s Borderland with Poland in 1920–1939“</p>
Reviews-Dominyka Tarvydaitė
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2023-12-212023-12-2115615810.15388/LIS.2023.52.10Instructions for Censors: Behind the Curtains of Post-war Polish Censorship
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<p>Rec.: Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk, Censorship of Literature in Post-War Poland: In Light of the Confidential Bulletins for Censors from 1945 to 1956, Jagiellonian University Press, 2022.</p>
Reviews-Dominyka Tarvydaitė
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2023-12-212023-12-2115115510.15388/LIS.2023.52.9Art Creating Imperial Space
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<p>Rec.: Elena Andreeva, Russian Central Asia in the Works of Nikolai Karazin, 1842–1908: Ambivalent Triumph, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.</p>
Reviews-Laurynas Kudijanovas
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2023-12-212023-12-2114515010.15388/LIS.2023.52.8Anthropology and the Abnormal
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<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Tekstą iš anglų kalbos vertė ir įvadą parašė Mingailė Jurkutė</span></p>
Classics-Ruth BenedictMingailė Jurkutė
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2023-12-212023-12-2113014410.15388/LIS.2023.52.7Rescuing the Jews in Lithuania during World War II: Practices of Creating a Lithuanian Museum Narrative
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<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Lithuanian historiography shows that the topic of rescuing the Jews in Lithuania during World War II (WWII) is intertwined into different narrative schemes: the pre-Holocaust story of the rescue of Jewish refugees at the beginning of WWII and the topic of the Holocaust in Lithuania. The question is: what narrative schemes of the rescue of the Jews are used in Lithuanian museums, what does the museum want to communicate to the public on the topic of the rescue of the Jews, by what means does the museum create a historical narrative, what historical cultural events promote the emergence of themes of the rescue of the Jews in one or another Lithuanian museum? The analysis of four cases (Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History, ‘Sugihara House’ in Kaunas, The Ninth Fort of Kaunas, ‘Lost Shtetl’ museum under construction in Šeduva) is used to answer these questions. It revealed that the aim of the topic of rescuing the Jews is to present the most objective, all-encompassing image of this past and to perform several important functions with the help of it. This is the education of Lithuanian and foreign visitors (the museum as a space of knowledge), honoring, remembering and thanking the Jewish saviors (the museum as a memorial space), refuting stereotypes related to the rescue of Jews (the museum as a space of demythification).</span></p>
ArticlesRescuing the JewsWorld War IIHolocaustLithuanian museumsexhibitionRūta Šermukšnytė
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2023-12-212023-12-2110812910.15388/LIS.2023.52.6The Historian and the Source: Some Contemporary Problems in Holocaust Historiography
https://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuvos-istorijos-studijos/article/view/33913
<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">When researching and writing the history of the Holocaust, it is crucial not only to select (and match the topic and approach) the main primary sources, but also to find an adequate critical relationship with them. In the case of the historiography of the beginning of the Holocaust (which is also the beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania), at least in the twenty-first century, such a relationship is often a challenge for the researcher: there is a tendency to automatically rely on, or to question, particular groups of sources (according to origin). This also leads to serious problems in understanding history, some of which the paper attempts to address. For example, how is the possibility of such an understanding disrupted when reliance is placed on specific (accidental) primary sources without questioning the setting and meaning of their origins and ignoring others? Or what is the picture of history that emerges when the attempts to apply both the attitudes of primordial trust and primitive questioning to subjective sources are uncontrolled? Finally, what are the implications of ignoring primary sources for the historical understanding of Holocaust situations, first of all the “pinning down” of testimonies, and then the subsequent processing (writing them down, reworking them, making them up, swiping them)? Importantly, these are questions not only of today’s historical scholarship, but of the Jewish scholars who survived the Catastrophe immediately after the war.</span></p>
ArticlesHolocaustsource criticismdocumentstestimonieshistoriographyunderstandingLithuaniaKaunasNerijus Šepetys
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2023-12-212023-12-218510710.15388/LIS.2023.52.5Images of India in the Lithuanian press of Catholic missions, 1927–1940
https://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuvos-istorijos-studijos/article/view/33912
<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The article presents the perception of Indian culture and everyday life, formed by the interwar Lithuanian press of the Catholic missions, which received little attention in historiography. Based on the articles published in the Jesuit magazine “Misijos” and the Salesian magazine “Saleziečių žinios” in 3rd and 4th decades of the 20th century, three main images that represented India in Lithuania are examined: Indian spirituality and religiosity, social problems of society, primarily the caste system and women’s rights, and finally the ferocious nature of the land. The analysis of periodicals revealed that the creation of images of India was influenced by the Christian tradition, the European orientalist attitude and the comparison of East-West civilizations.</span></p>
ArticlesEastIndiainterwarimageCatholic missionsLaurynas Kudijanovas
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2023-12-212023-12-21658410.15388/LIS.2023.52.4Philanthropic Activities in Early 20th Century Vilnius: Vilnius Children’s Welfare Society’s Photo Album
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<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The article examines how the 1906 photo album of the Vilnius Children’s Welfare Society (1901–1940) serves as a reflection of the child-care practices employed by philanthropic organizations in early 20th-century Vilnius. This representational source reveals the society’s aspiration to engage in philanthropic activities by providing children the skills necessary for various professions and fostering their comprehensive development of the body, soul, and mind. The purposefully arranged mise-en-scènes within the photo album also depict the image of the organization that its members sought to create.</span></p>
ArticlesphilanthropyVilnius Children’s Welfare Societyphoto albumMilda Kruopienė
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2023-12-212023-12-21406410.15388/LIS.2023.52.3“In Heavy Chains”: The Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Teutonic Order in Prussia, the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
https://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuvos-istorijos-studijos/article/view/33910
<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This article delves into a analysis of the treatment of prisoners of war during the late 14th and 15th centuries. The study not only examines the challenges encountered by the prisoners themselves, as documented in their letters, but also sheds light on the difficulties faced by the officials of the Teutonic Knights and lords involved in their release and care. The work highlights the most salient aspects of captivity, including the deprivation experienced by the prisoners, the means by which they were able to obtain basic necessities such as food and clothing, and the types of places in which they were typically detained. Moreover, the article explores the various factors that influenced the behavior of both captors and captives, and distinguishes between the appropriate and inappropriate treatment of prisoners based on the established norms of medieval times.</span></p>
Articlesprisoners of warcaptivesTeutonic OrderGrand Duchy of LithuaniaKingdom of PolandransomMedieval AgesAntanas Petrilionis
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2023-12-212023-12-21243910.15388/LIS.2023.52.2