From ideology of culture to cultural critique: Kultūros barai journal and the changing roles of Lithuanian intelllectuals (1989-2019)

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Knygos dalis / Part of the book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
From ideology of culture to cultural critique: Kultūros barai journal and the changing roles of Lithuanian intelllectuals (1989-2019)
Authors:
Samalavičius, Almantas
In the Book:
Europe thirty years after 1989: transformations of values, memory, and identity /edited by Tomas Kavaliauskas. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2021 (Value Inquiry Book Series. Central European Value Studies, Volume; 359). P. 221-238
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1990-21 amžius. Antroji Lietuvos Respublika.
Summary / Abstract:

ENThe aim of this essay is to analyze how the roles and responsibilities of intellectuals have shifted since 1989 when Lithuania set out on the road to freedom and broke away from the Soviet Union that had occupied and eventually colonized the country in 1939 using the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and again at the end of wwii in 1945 under the pretext of "liberation". The focus is on the journal Kultūros barai [Domains of Culture], a monthly publication with a lengthy publishing history. This journal has contributed significantly to the making of public space for intellectual issues and debates since the spectacular fall of the Soviet regime in the Baltics and East-Central Europe. Intellectuals have always been important in the cultural and political contexts of East-Central Europe. Lithuania is no exception. The enduring importance of Eastern European intellectuals is verified by their ambiguous situation, controversies, and moral choices under Communist regimes (Konrad and Shelenyi, 1979; Milosz, 1991; Bauman, 1989) and the changing roles they had to perform after the fall of totalitarianism and experience of post-Communist transformations (Bozoki, 1998; King and Shelenyi, 2004; Samalavičius, 2007; Bradan and Dushakine, 2010). Journals have been extremely important for East-Central European intellectuals not only as tools for dissemination of ideas and opinions, but also because periodicals allowed them to communicate with both their peers and larger layers of their societies. [Extract, p. 221]

DOI:
10.1163/9789004443587_012
ISBN:
9789004442115
Subject:
Politikos mokslai / Political sciences
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