Legacy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Lithuanian identity Cover Image

Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės palikimas ir lietuviškoji tapatybė
Legacy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Lithuanian identity

Author(s): Darius Kuolys
Subject(s): Civil Society, Political history, Politics and Identity
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla

Summary/Abstract: "Lithuanians will collapse." They were almost never free. When it was, it was dictatorship. Sacrifice worthy people. I understood that if Gorbachev had to seize power, "François Mitterand, President of the French Presidency, met with such words the announcement of the independence of Lithuania on March 11, 1990. Together with the American historian Larry Wolff, it can be assumed that such a 20th century attitude of a Western official towards the "political barbarians" living in the East is likely to be determined as early as the eighteenth century. French stereotypes of European imagery created by the French scholars and have not yet eroded.

  • Issue Year: 48/2006
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 9-14
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Lithuanian