| Abstract [eng] |
Collective memory is a community's shared interpretation of the past, which emerges and exists within communication. The phenomenon is by definition a construct that depends on social conditions, but it always maintains a connection with the direct experience of the events remembered. In this regard, the memory of the Lithuanian guerilla war ended up in very complex situation, in which it could not emerge as a continuous social and cultural phenomenon. The collective memory of normal modern society is supported by both informal everyday communication and cultural forms. Due to the influences of the Soviet policies, instead of the common memory based on common experiences, supported by everyday communication and institutionalised cultural forms, a number of separate narratives emerged, functioning in various geographical and sociocultural spaces – the Soviet one, the Lithuanian diaspora one, and the non-Soviet narrative of the Soviet Lithuanian society. This thesis presents the hypothesis that the image of the guerilla war that appeared at the beginning of the second independence was a product of the structural processes of the shaping and functioning of memory that started during the Soviet occupation. The study is based on a broad spectrum of sources, most of which are the published ones, with the aim to examine a distribution, variability and fluctuation of the images of the guerrilla war in all sociocultural spheres. Archival and published documents are analytically interpreted. Oral data was collected in semi-structured interviews. |
