Justino Marcinkevičiaus drama "Mindaugas" kaip atminties vieta

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Dramos; Sovietmetis; Istorinė atmintis.

ENThe author of this study sees Justinas Marcinkevičius’s drama Mindaugas (1968) as a “site of memory” (following Pierre Nora’s term “lieu de mčmoire”) and raises a series of questions: What programmatic ideas are expressed in this poet’s work? How did these ideas interact with Soviet ideology and historiography? How did this process of interaction undermine or strengthen the claims of official Soviet discourse? What effect did this work, and the whole cycle of dramas, which turned into a “site of memory,” have on Lithuanian society’s historical memory? The analysis of the work focuses on four main areas: history as a space for the intersections and manipulations of different positions; the Lithuanian state’s genesis as the expression of a despot’s idea and human drama; the West as a source of constant danger to the Lithuanian state; paganism as Lithuanian identity and Christianity as the reason for its loss. The play is analyzed and these questions are raised within a broader context - the question of Lithuanian society’s complicated and insufficiently understood relationship to the Soviet era, the people who lived and created during this time, and the “sites of memory” these individuals left us. [From the publication]