DYSKURSY HISTORYCZNE PAŃSTW BAŁTYCKICH JAKO INSTRUMENT OCHRONY MŁODYCH DEMOKRACJI PO ROZPADZIE ZSRR: WYBRANE ASPEKTY.

The aim of the article is to discuss selected elements of the historical policy of the Baltic states, tracing the process of shaping their official historical discourse – from post-Soviet nationalist narratives and the glorification of interwar independence to the pro-Western freedom narrative. The starting point of the research is the hypothesis that the top-down memorisation processes of the Baltic states, the centre of which were anti-Sovietism and nationalism, were an effective instrument for protecting the young democratic systems in the Baltic Sea against both the neo-imperial attempts of Putin’s Russia and the autocratic inclinations characteristic of other countries created after the collapse of the USSR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]