| Title |
Klasikinė filologija ideologijos gniaužtuose (1940-1953 metai) / |
| Another Title |
Classical philology in the grip of ideology (1940-1953). |
| Authors |
Juchnevičienė, Nijolė |
| DOI |
10.15388/Litera.2013.3.2498 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Literatūra.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2013, t. 55, Nr. 3, p. 99-114.. ISSN 1648-1143. eISSN 0258-0802 |
| Abstract [eng] |
With sensitive reactions to what happened in Moscow, campaigns of a harsh treatment of scientists and scholars of different fields were initiated. Ideological activity was regarded to be essential in one’s academic carrier. The minutes of the Department of Classical Philology, kept at the Vilnius University Archives, bear witness to the University life at that time and give the best insight into the mental ways that helped the Department and classical philology in Lithuania to survive. The preserved texts are pieces of rhetoric, a peculiar sort of Soviet second sophism. Nobody, including the speaker, was supposed to believe in what was said. The conformism illustrated above was not a goal in itself and did not reveal the true state of mind. The majority of Lithuanian intellectuals managed to combine conformism with the so-called “conservationism” which expressed itself in the use of one’s position to do whatever was deemed possible for the benefit of the nation. The Department remained to be the most important cultural factor in its efforts to preserve the European dimension of the Lithuanian culture. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2013 |
| CC license |
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