The Great War experiences of Lithuanians: an overview

ENIn the 1920s and 1930s, public attention was mostly focused on two experiences of World War I in Lithuania: the misery of everyday life during the German occupation and the efforts of political actors to cope with that misery and struggle for national independence. A variety of other experiences of the Lithuanian population during the Great War attracted much less attention. This had a subsequent impact on how the importance of the Great War was represented to Lithuanians for several generations. This article presents an overview of the experiences of the Lithuanian population during the Great War with a focus on the quantitative data on those experiences. [From the publication]

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