Vasario 16-osios aktas: teksto formavimo šaltiniai ir autorystės problema
The Act of February 16th: the Sources of the Text and the Problem of the Authorship

Summary/Abstract: After the restoration of the Lithuanian state in 1990, the problem of the authorship of the text of the Act of Independence of February 16th, 1918, became popular in historical literature. The aim of article is to trace back the formation of the text of the Act of Independence and find out whether the ascription of the authorship of the Act of February 16th to the so called ‘left four’ was a well founded conclusion. All the assumptions made in the article are based on the sources of the Lithuanian Council as well as other documents and memoirs. The authors is doing conclusion that the Act of February 16th was the result of a collective work. Therefore, the attempts to ascribe the authorship of the text of the Act of Independence to one member of the Lithuanian Council or a group of them are unethical and do not correspond to historical reality.

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