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The Unknown War: Anti-Soviet armed resistance in Lithuania and its legacies book cover

1st Edition

The Unknown War Anti-Soviet armed resistance in Lithuania and its legacies

Edited By Arūnas Streikus Copyright 2022
186 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The armed anti-Soviet resistance movement which arose in the second half of 1944 in Lithuania, as Soviet forces began to reoccupy the Baltic countries and Galicia, sparking a nearly decade-long fierce military conflict, has yet to become established in the common narrative of contemporary European history. However, controversy regarding the nature of this `war after the war' and its legacies... Read more

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Glossary of vernacular terms and abbreviations

Introduction

ARŪNAS STREIKUS

Part One: A Strange Long War

1 Lithuanian Anti-Soviet Armed Resistance in the Context of 20th Century Partisan Wars

KĘSTUTIS GIRNIUS

2 Who Were the Lithuanian Partisans?

DAINIUS NOREIKA

3 Partisan Supporters: The Unseen Participants of the Resistance

ENRIKA KRIPIENĖ

Part Two: From a Memory War to a Heroic Narrative

4 The Memory of the Armed Anti-Soviet Resistance during the Cold War

MINGAILĖ JURKUTĖ

5 The Partisan War in Lithuanian Memory Culture after 1990

AISTĖ PETRAUSKIENĖ

6 Archaeology in the Study of the Anti-Soviet Lithuanian Partisan War

GINTAS VĖLIUS

Index

Biography

Arūnas Streikus is a professor at the Vilnius University Faculty of History and head of its Modern History Department since 2017. His research interests include the contemporary history of Catholicism and the cultural and political history of Lithuania under Soviet rule. He is the author of numerous articles and books on these topics. Most recently, he has co-authored the volumes Churches, Memory and Justice in Post-Communism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); and La Chiesa Cattolica in Europa Centro-Orientale di fronte al Nazionalsocialismo 1933-1945 (Gabrielli Editori 2019).

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