2026: Narratives of Transition

2026

Vilnius University Open Series
Narratives of Transition

This volume has been funded by the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Academic Exchange Service and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) e. V. in Leipzig. This measure is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon State Parliament.

Published 2026-05-14

Front Matter

Alexander Mionskowski
Editorial Board and Table of Contents
1-5
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Grußwort des Rektors der Universität Vilnius
7-10
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Alexander Mionskowski
Danksagung
11-12
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Articles

Alexander Mionskowski
Introduction. Narratives of the Upheaval around 1990 in East- and Central Europe
13-30
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Günther Heydemann
“A reluctant Player?” Germany’s Foreign and Security Policy after Unification 1990–2020
33-49
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Andris Banka
So close and yet so far apart: German-Baltic geopolitical views
50-62
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Herfried Münkler
Centered Power: On the responsibilities of Germany within Europa
63-71
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Achim Hildebrandt
Schengen is a European Value in Itself and Will be Reinvented as Circumstances Require: A Plea
72-81
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Detlev Brunner
Economic Transformation and Social Change: East Germany in the 1990s
85-95
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Tomoyuki Hashimoto
Varieties of Capitalism in the Baltics: A view from commercial banking
96-103
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Gert-Rüdiger Wegmarshaus
Free Lithuania: Welcome to Europe – Farewell to Nuclear Power
104-120
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Alexandr Osipian
Deindustrialization and its political and social implications: decline of the left-wing parties in Ukraine and secessionist insurgency in Donbas
121-146
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Arnd Bauerkämper
Overwritten Memory. The Holocaust and the GULag between Universalistic and Nationalistic Narratives in the Baltiic States, Poland, Belarus and Russia after 1989
149-176
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Monika Rogers
The Public Criminological Discourse in Soviet and Transitional Lithuania
177-201
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Philip Manow
Populism in East and West – The Political Economies of Protest in Europe
202-221
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Jarosław Suchoples
The Narrative of Care: Three Examples of Populist COVID-19 Legislation in Poland in 2020
222-239
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Csongor Lőrincz
Border Policies between Sovereignty and the Movement of Goods (on Ádám Bodor’s The Sinistra Zone)
243-258
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Frank Hoffmann
Laughing or Crying? Phases the German-German Unification Discourse between “Wendewut”, “Ostalgia” and Empowerment in the East
259-273
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Alexander Mionskowski
Partisans of Transformation: Resentful Dissent and Radicalization after 1989 in Contemporary Literature
274-296
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Alexander Mionskowski
“What is it that we call ‘the West’?” – Notes from the Panel Discussion
299-304
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