Lietuviškos viešosios erdvės kūrimasis Panevėžyje
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Tautinis judėjimas; Panevėžys; Periodinė spauda; Tautinis judėjimas; Vietos bendruomenė; Viešoji erdvė; Lithuania; Lithuanian national movement; Local community; Nationalist movement; Panevėžys; Periodicals; Public space.
ENOne of the less studied aspects of Lithuanian national movement is its expression in the town's community dominated by other ethnic groups. Therefore, the main objective of this study is the analysis of circumstances and peculiarities of Lithuanian public space creation in Panevėžys and the set tasks - to investigate the formation and functioning of Lithuanian public space in the following sectors of local community: in the church, voluntary associations, press, to identify most important Lithuanian public persons and to give their social characteristics. The definition of public sphere was discussed by various authors; in this article it is understood as a communicative interactivity, going beyond the boundaries of private interpersonal exchange of information. The public space in the Russian empire could form after the tsar's manifesto of October 17, 1905, which declared the Russian citizens' civil liberties. The press ban abolition in 1904 and at the end of the year the appearance of first legal Lithuanian newspapers was also very important to the Lithuanian public sphere formation. Therefore, the year 1905 is the chronological beginning of the study and the natural end - German occupation in the summer of 1915.We conclude that Lithuanian public space in Panevėžys started to form intensively in 1905; this process was very fast, from the first Lithuanian simple social evenings over a decade it became one of the dominant components of the general public space in the town. A specific feature of this process in Panevėžys is that it involved not only the residents of the town, but also of the environs. So it strengthened and accelerated the development of Lithuanian public space. Major makers of the public space became Lithuanian intellectuals, who came from the peasant environment. The Lithuanian public space manifested most strongly in Panevėžys in the activities of voluntary associations and periodicals. In the church the Lithuanian public space formed at the earliest, by the beginning of the 20th century, but after 1905 it was newly brought up-to-date, consciously protected and developed. Lithuanian public space was not closed, members of other nationalities also took part in it, and during a decade it became a constituent part of equal value of the total town's public space. [From the publication]
