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The article explores biography and various aspects of public activity of the Russian refugee from Lithuania, lawyer, professor of Russian language and literature at the University of South Florida Anatole Sokolsky (1993–2006). Memoirs and articles published by him in the USA were used as the basic empirical material and the documents from the Lithuanian Central State Archive and private collection of the Sokolsky family served as auxiliary sources for the research. There is a lack of studies that analyze the history of representatives of Russian intelligentsia who were forced to escape Lithuania in the period of World War II (from 1939 to 1945) because of the danger of the Soviet regime. Publications by Sokolsky do not represent an example of professional literature, but it allows us to find out more not only about personal destiny and worldview of the author, the results of his social activities in favor of the Russian diaspora, but also about the life of Russian intelligentsia in the periods of interwar, World War II and emigration to the West.

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The article analyzes the memories of prisoners of war and civilians imprisoned in Nazi Germany Stammlager (Stalag) 331 (Stalag I C (Heydekrug) and Stalag Luft VI camps, the 184 Prisoner of War (POW) Camp of the NKVD and the 2652 Special POW Hospital, the Ministry of the Interior of the Lithuanian SSR (MVD) in Corrective Labour Colony Number 3. Based on the memoirs, the aim is to analyze the narratives formed by the memory (or memoirs) groups of the Macikai camps, summarizing their content and systematizing the plots that dominate them: conditions in prisons, relations with the management of the camps, attempts to escape, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper offers an enquiry into masquerades as a social phenomenon. The peculiarity of masquerades--public events that emerged and were popularised in the 18th century--is that they provided different social classes with a unique opportunity to have fun together. The paper aims to research the structure of the 18th century society and identify the social changes that fuelled the demand to transcend the limits between social classes through this particular form of entertainment. By drawing on memoirs, fiction, and press reports, the paper analyses the function and social reception of masquerades. Even though the popularity of masquerades could be regarded as a sign of democratisation and diminishing of class barriers in society, these barriers remained very much present and obvious to everybody. Because the identities of people behind masks were unknown and participants were not permitted to bring any status-related attributes (such as weapons or servants), masquerades were creating an illusion of social equality. Yet this equality was rather ephemeral--the person's status was still often recognisable nonetheless and the aristocracy was not even attempting to hide it. The masquerade security forces were allowed to use their judgment and punish the wrongdoers according to their class. It is worth noting that, as masquerades were gradually gaining popularity, they were also subjected to "stratification": they adapted to the financial situations and demands of various social groups and, while becoming accessible to the poor, masquerades also introduced even greater social divisions. Masquerades were attractive primarily due to the unrestricted exploration of the possibilities of anonymity. They were based on the natural tendency to create illusions and tricks, which some saw as part of a controlled social game, while others saw them as a chance to hide their social status. The paper also concludes that, due to the mass character and the capacity to draw crowds from all social strata, masquerades were also used as tools of soft power: for example, in Vilnius, masquerades used to be organised by the officers of the Russian army deployed in the city at that time. This also served as a reason for debates about patriotism and treason. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper analyses the roles of women in the 20th century Lithuanian literature and culture. The paper focuses primarily on the lives and works of the poets Janina Degutytė and Judita Vaičiūnaitė, and the art critic Aušra Sluckaitė. The argument is built around the two premises: first, the atmosphere of the post-Stalinist ‘thaw’ of the 1960s manifested through the liberalisation of society and modernist experimentation in arts. Second, the post-Stalinist reprieve also saw the return to the ideology of the traditionally patriarchal gender roles. The paper looks through a series of cases and analyses the ways in which women were active in literature by noting how the notions of femininity manifested in their work, and how their ways of working in the field of literature actually impeded their capacities to make their contributions evident. Drawing on the memoirs, letters, and other documents, the paper discusses women’s representations of both their selves and their youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Randomly discovered memories of Julius J. Bielskis, former Honorary Consul General of Lithuania in Los Angeles, about the little-known American Lithuanian Balys Pranas Mastauskas/Frank Mast (1889-1961) enabled them to be published by briefly presenting this active character. His greatest contribution was from 1918 to 1919, seeking recognition of the Lithuanian state in Washington and Paris, working in Switzerland. From 1919 to 1923 he assisted Lithuanian representatives in the USA. Has had extensive contacts in US political circles. Later, while living in Chicago, he was an active expatriate, attorney and lecturer at Loyola University. Belonging to the Lithuanian Catholic ideological group in the United States, he was close to the Lithuanian politicians for Christian democrats, and was more bold in criticizing the politicians of other currents, especially nationalists. J. J. Bielskis records, briefly, the major achievements of B. P. Mastauskas in political-social activities, reveals his character, his personal traits, his talent for connecting with people in need, and points out that Mastauskas was honest, dutiful and hard-working. Mr. Bielskis did not question his patriotism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Yatvigian Book (hereinafter YB) is a conventional, probably the most exhaustive and the most important description of the ethno-cultural tradition of the tribe that spoke Yatvigian, one of the two languages of Western Balts, recorded during the Reformation period. It is based on the source of information disseminated in several variants of manuscripts, and later in small printed books (reprints). Unfortunately, the original of YB has not been found yet, and the scholars who discussed this source or analysed it to some detail after the appearance of Wilhelm Mannhardt's book Letto-Preussische Götterlehre (1936), which contains copy A(p), resorted not to the analysis of the copies, but to the materials provided in the book, and did not doubt the authenticity of the given information. Due to these reasons, historical facts of the manuscripts were not investigated as the information in Mannhardt's monograph was taken for granted. Unfortunately, in many cases it does not correspond to reality and is essentially erroneous or elliptical. Textological analysis of ten surviving manuscripts of YB shows that the method of information structuring in the copies A(p), a, B, X of the old edition presupposes a reflection of the mandatory tradition of the preparation of diplomatic documents, i.e., those that are related to the legal field: the presentation of factual material follows strict rules established for preparation of such works - a prologue, a narrative, and an epilogue. Although this circumstance has not been highlighted by any of the researchers of the source analysed, it is extremely important, because it can be related with the intent of the work and the aim of its creation. Starting with copy C, whose author doctor Gregor Duncker decided to remove the foreword of YB and to retell the remaining narrative instead of copying it, a precedent was created for evaluating this work not as a supposedly important document of the juridical field, but as a work of prose. Unfortunately, the creator of manuscript K distorted the information of this source even to a greater extent, removed the information on the lexicon used by the Yatvigians that he deemed unnecessary, and transformed this important work into something like a rough copy. In summing up the results of the examination of YB, the following conclusions should be made: 1. 15 copies of SK should be codified. Of these, ten have survived (A[p], a, B, C, E, G, G[p], J[p], K, X), and five are lost (†D, †ε, †F, †H, †X1). 2. Presumably, the way of presenting factual material in manuscript A(p) presupposes the system of information modelling in the original YB and is of special importance; it is recorded only in Mannhardt's monograph. 3. The manuscript that Mannhardt codified with symbol A is not kept at the Department of Manuscripts of the Gdansk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences: 3.1. identified with this symbol, the information material in the footnotes of the monograph duplicates copy A and corresponds to the factual material in Ms. 1277 (manuscript a), which is kept in the above-mentioned library; 3.2. in Mannhardt's book, the information of two different copies A(p) and a is unified and erroneously treated as an component of manuscript A. 4. Copy C was created in 1545. 5. There is no precise correspondence between Manuscript G, which is a secondary copy of copy C, and the primary variant. 6. The special quality of copies G and X1 is the final sentences of YB, which are of different modification but of similar semantic connotation and were created by the copiers of these manuscripts. 7. The innovative transposition of the functions of mythonyms recorded in copy K presupposes a secondary status of this manuscript (from the point of view of mythonym analysis). 8. Copy X, which is attributable to the group of rewrites of the old edition and which has not been known to or analysed by Lithuanian scholars is kept at the Department of Manuscripts of the Gdansk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 9. Four types of the bibliographic status of YB should be distinguished: a. Jan Malecki's De sacrificiis et idololatria vetervm Boruſſorum... copy of no value; ß. Agenda Ecclesiastica a speculative variant;. hybrid reworking of Agenda Ecclesiastica and a work published by Jeronimas Maleckis; d. valuable memoir-genre 'source of Prussian mythology of special value'. 10. Based on the consecutive grouping of structural elements of the copies of the old edition (resp. A[p], a, B, X), the structure of the prototype of YB should be explained by distinguishing 12 components. 11. The language of the manuscripts of YB is a combination of Early High German and Middle Low German used in Prussia in the sixteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the statistical analysis of bibliographical data and the methods of content analysis and structuralist narratology, the research sets out to determine the dynamics of publication of the memoirs on the Great War in East Prussia that were published in Germany in the period of 1914-1939 as well as to investigate the tendencies of change in their content. The memoirs on the Great War in East Prussia have neither been studied in terms of content nor the dynamics of publication. Therefore, this study provided an opportunity to not only single out the prevailing storylines relating to the topic of remembrance of the Great War in East Prussia but also to reveal the dynamics of their circulation in German publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents the review of the development of Lithuanian higher schools during the Soviet period. Chronological data of establishment and transformations of Lithuanian high-schools in 1940- 1990 are presented, beginning with the Soviet occupation and ending with the Revival events. The article highlights the structure and specifics of Soviet Lithuanian high-schools, the content of specialists training, provisions of science and studies. Chronologically integral, comprehensive scientific works about higher education development in Soviet Lithuania have not been prepared yet. Most of the information about this period is provided by individual archival documents, Soviet periodical press, commemorative books, different high school publications on the history of their institution, as well as individual researchers memoirs, some features of the development of higher education are revealed in individual scientific works. This article provides an summarized material of various authors and sources and integral analysis of Lithuanian higher education during the Soviet period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An owner of a printing house and a publisher, Martynas Jankus (1858-1946) was a citizen of Germany and a Lithuanian of the East Prussian region. He was an active member of the Lithuanian national movement of the 19th - early 20th century. He supported the opposition of the people of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which was annexed and integrated into the Russian empire in 1795. When the usage of the Lithuanian language in Latin script was banned in 1864-1904, Martynas Jankus started printing illegal books and newspapers in his printing house and transporting them secretly to the Russian empire. He supported publishing "Auszra" and "Varpas" the most influential newspapers of the national movement. In 1918, after the restoration of the independence of the Republic of Lithuania, this veteran of Lithuanian culture and politics was highly appreciated and attracted close attention of journalists. He publicised quite many memoirs about the publishing and distribution of illegal press, known newspaper editors and book authors, printers, and publishers. The greatest value for historiographic research of the book resides in three generalised memoirs that M. Jankus attempted in his late years. They include the publication "Smuggling of Lithuanian books" („Lietuviškų Kningų Kontrabanda″) which was published in the newspaper "Tėvynė" (1918) edited by Lithuanians in the USA, and two unpublished manuscripts: an exhaustive narrative (27 pages) without a title about the state of the Lithuanian press and language during the period of the growth of the national movement, sent to the professor linguist of the Göttingen university (Germany) Eduard Hermann, and the memoirs "An encyclopedia of my adventures" (,,Mano prietikių enciklopedija″) written in the form of a scholarly encyclopedic dictionary characterizing the acquaintances of M. Jankus. The advantage of the memoirs lays in the point of view of the author who is a direct participant and observer of the factual events, political and social processes, and characters of persons. Foreign researchers appreciate the knowledge of M. Jankus' cooperation with the participants of Byelorusian, Polish, and German national and revolutionary movements and assistance in their literary publishing. On the other hand, although this author wrote many published and unpublished memoirs, they were small in size, written in the journalistic style and quite open. Therefore, they raised contradictions and critical comments of the public. Many did not understand the character of M. Jankus, which was conditioned by differences in cultural and religious traditions based on the civil rights of Prussian citizens, implying a much greater religious and political freedom. His publications and opinions were not self-controlled or limited in any way. The author sincerely depicted the positive and negative sides and character of the national movement and its participants. He was among the first to raise the issues of Polonized and estranged Catholic priests and the vices of the book smuggling as a social phenomenon. The Lithuanian society was not matured enough at his time and did not support him. The dethronement of the movements, communities, and leaders that had a national character was not tolerated during M. Jankus' lifetime; it is not tolerated in modern society, either. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article deals with the relations between Prof. V. Biržiška and his former student P. Lukošiūnas. It is based on archival and published sources and, with regard to provided options, tries to disclose the fate of Professor's manuscripts prior to and after his retreat from Lithuania to the West in the summer of 1944. The conclusion was made that V. Biržiška had brought away part of his manuscripts piled up in trunks. Actu-ally, the manuscript of Aleksandrynas had to be among those manuscripts, although V. Biržiška assumed that it could have been not complete. The complicated fate of the survival of the latter manuscript is confirmed by the content of the letter of P. Lukošiūnas to V. Biržiška, provided in the annex to the article. Before his depar-ture from Lithuania, V. Biržiška had entrusted part of his manuscripts to his former nurse O. Butkaite who was still living in Viekšniai in his parents' house, and to his other close friends, among them, for example, to V. Steponaitis. As shown by the accumulated memoir literature, the fate was unsparing to the manuscripts that were safeguarded by the nurse: several times they avoided the fires of the war, but their end was still marked by fire: they were burnt by the nurse herself before her death. Part of his manu-scripts V. Biržiška had secured as far back as in 1941, and on the basis of these documents later, in the then Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, the formation of a separate collec-tion was started. Part of Professor's manuscript heritage appeared in other libraries due to the efforts ofJ. Rimantas and K. Korsakas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Subsidium reminiscentiae or The Treasury of Memory is a book of memoirs written by Maciej Vorbek Lettow between 1646 and 1660. The attention of the cultural historian is attracted by the exceptional cultural status of its author. The Lutheran author was born in Vilnius. The grandson of a poor Elbląg citizen and the son of a surgeon, he took a doctorate in medicine and philosophy at Padua University and later became a chevalier of the order of St. M ark, a doctor to Krzysztof II Radziwiłł (from 1617), a medic to the king Wladysław IV (between 1635 and 1648) and was honored by Poland. The Treasury of Memory is going to be interpreted here as a source of education, medicine and history of the customs and life of a family in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century. I. A pupi l and a student The memoirs of Vorbek Lettow is a captivating witness to his almost sixteen year long (between 1600 and 1616) education. The author describes his academic history in these memoirs: his studies in the Vilnius Lutheran Church's School, in Königsberg, Elbląg, in Gdańsk's Academic Gymnasium, in Vilnius Evangelical Gymnasium and in the native Vilnius Jesuit Academy. Moreover, Lettow studied in Leuven and Padua during his service as the escort of Frydrich and Aleksander Sapiehas. It is worth paying attention to the parallel made by the author between the teaching and methodology of Vilnius Academy and Gdańsk Academic Gymnasium where Vorbek Lettow studied at Bartłomiej Keckermann: the famous pioneer of encyclopedism in the 17th century. It is interesting to observe that the Lutheran student acknowledges the advantage of a Catholic institution. He colorfully and minutely describes his life in the apartment of pastor Chrystian Brun, meticulously depicting the arrangement and detail of the rooms decorated with Latine inscriptions. This barely year long stay at the residence of the devout Lutheran priest strongly affected the world-view of the young Lettow and helped him hold onto his parents' faith, in spite of his studies in Vilnius Jesuit Academy. His writings allow us to witness the everyday life of a Vilnius student, the intellectual atmosphere and iconosphere of the city in which the ideas of Erasmic irenism and the cult of knowledge was alive. II. A doctor We cannot find a detailed description of a doctor's work in The Treasury of Memory. There is no detailed medicine terminology or "interesting causes" which are so frequent in doctors' memoirs of the Baroque epoch. Lettow is especially brief in describing the death of the seven-year old prince Zygmunt Kazimierz, the presumed inheritor of the throne. The author gives one page to the last days of the king in Merkinė (Merecz) in May of 1648. He describes the acute treatment of the noble patient done by his college, which caused king's death. The reason for such brief description is the particular discretion of the estate medic (for example, none of the piquant details of life of the estate were placed within the pages of his memories) and also his attitude towards the profession. Lettow considered medicine as a means to enter the chambers of nobility and to improve the material circumstances of his own family according to the maxim Galenus dat opes.… [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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