Kauno miesto gyventojų tautinė sudėtis XX a. 3 dešimtmečio pirmoje pusėje
The Ethnic Composition of Kaunas Inhabitants at the Beginning of the 1920s

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the data about the ethnic composition of Kaunas inhabitants according to the population census of 1923 in Lithuania and the statistics collected by the Polish Election Committee to Lithuanian Sejms. According to the official data, 58,9 % Lithuanians, 27,1 % Jews, 4,5 % Poles, and other nationalities lived in Kaunas in 1923. These numbers enabled to establish the discourse of Lithuanian historiography based on Kaunas “Lithuanization” during the early period of the Lithuanian independence. The Polish Election Committee to Lithuanian Sejms provides the following data about the above mentioned period: 29,92 % Lithuanians, 31,48 % Poles, 31,8 % Jews, and others. The leading position of the author of the present article is that this statistical data is not objective and reliable. The author has found the data which is based on the year 1922; it is related to the population census initiated by Kaunas City Council. According to these documents, 48,71 % Lithuanians, 32,78 % Jews, 9,85 % Poles, and other nationalities were living in Kaunas. The analysis and the conclusions have shown that the population census initiated by Kaunas City Council might be taken as an answer to the situation that existed at the beginning of the 1920s in Kaunas, concerning its ethnic composition.

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