ENDuring the firsts years of post-Soviet period there were essentially no adequate scholarly attempts focused at studying systematically the emerging problems in collective (and individual) memory. The scholarly interest in the issues of collective (social) as well as cultural memory became more significantly expressed in the second decade after the reestablishment of Lithuania's independence. The author of the article discusses the problems related to recent collective memory studies and attempts to assess how far the studies of collective memory of the Soviet era have progressed in Lithuania. [From the publication]