Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania Generational Experiences

This book explores the impact on different generations of Lithuanians of the fifty-year Soviet modernisation project which was implemented in Lithuania from 1940 to 1991.

Autorentext

Laima ilinskien is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Social Time and Generations Laima ilinskien and Melanie Ilic Part 1 2. Soviet Dystopia: Public Spaces and Modern Materialities in Late Soviet Lithuania Neringa Klumbyt 3. Understandings of Crime and Deviance in Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania Monika Kareniauskait 4. The Last Generation of Engineers in Soviet Lithuania Saulius Grybkauskas Part 2 5. Life Course as an Identity Component of the Last Soviet Generation in Lithuania Sigita Kraniauskien *6. Identifying the 1970s Generation Irena utinien 7. Particularities of the Behavioural Models of the Last Soviet Generation Laima ilinskien 8. Lithuania's Cultural Elite, Born from 1970 to 1980: Group, Class and Generational Identities Vilius Ivanauskas and Monika Kareniauskait 9. The Role of Religious Experience in the Formation of Life Choices, Social Attitudes and Behaviour Models of Different Generations in Lithuania Irena Egl Laumenskait 10. Communicative Family Memory across Generations Laima ilinskien 11. Lithuania's Gender Revolution: Reversed and Stalled* Aura Maslauskait