| Abstract [eng] |
Based on historical sources and 37 interviews, this dissertation examines the narrative of the Lithuanian partisan war of 1944-1953 in the families of the fighters. The research covers three generations: the participants of the partisan war, their children and grandchildren. It analyses personal and collective reflections on resistance and repression, processes of memory and forgetting, the circumstances of the formation and intergenerational transmission of narratives, and the practices of commemorating and perpetuating the partisan war, which have an impact on the attitudes of family members of the partisan war participants towards the freedom fights, the Soviet occupation, and the contemporary politics of memory. The study reveals a disrupted process of narrative transmission and a large extent of lost memories, but also suggests that the Soviet regime was not able to suppress the partisan war narrative permanently, and that, despite their different experiences, partisan war participants and their family members are united by the same values. |
