Lithuania in comparative perspective: from transition to flawed democracy

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Document Type:
Straipsnis / Article
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Lithuania in comparative perspective: from transition to flawed democracy
Authors:
Krupavičius, Algis
In the Journal:
Central European political science review. 2020, Vol. 21, Nr. 82, p. 87-107
Taip pat paskelbta leidinyje anglų kalba: 30 éve szabadon Közép-Európában / szerkesztette Simon János. Budapest: Ludovika Egyetemi Kiadó, 2022. P. 83-100
Subject Category:
LT
Politika / Politics; Regionai ir regioninė politika / Regions and regional policy.
Summary / Abstract:

ENThirty years ago, Central Eastern Europe was taken by a storm of democratic revolutions. A cradle of these revolutions was on the Baltic shores. In 1988 new popular movements in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia suddenly and unexpectedly emerged from below to reshape the Soviet political system. A zeitgeist at least temporarily managed to land in three Baltic Republics almost in parallel. Like in a snowball effect and in just in a half of the year three new popular movements been set up here, i. e. Rahvarinne or the Popular Front of Estonia was founded in April 1988, Sąjūdis in Lithuania emerged in June 1988 and finally Tautas Fronte in Latvia was created in October 1988. Initially all three popular movements intended to support Gorbachev’s perestroika as a reform from above to modernize a state-controlled economy and very partially to liberalize political regime or to bring a human face to communism. [Extract, p. 87]

ISBN:
9789635315826
ISSN:
1586-4197
Subject:
Politikos mokslai / Political sciences
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Political culture in the Baltic states: between national and European integration / Kjetil Duvold, Sten Berglund, Joakim Ekman. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 220 p.
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