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. It reveals the specific characteristics of the last Soviet generation, born in the 1970s, and sets this generation apart from those who were born earlier and later. It analyses changes in attitudes, choices and relationships in a variety of social spheres and contexts and the adaptation skills that were required during the late Soviet and post-Soviet transformation processes. Overall, it presents a great deal of detail on the social experiences of different generations in late Soviet and post-Soviet society.
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.
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003023050
In memory of project researcher Vilius Ivanauskas (19792018), who died before this book was completed.
Saulius Grybkauskas is Senior Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. His research interests include Moscowperiphery relations, centre agencies in the Soviet republics, Soviet nationality, economic and social policy, nomenklatura networks, and KGB activity in controlling society. His current research focuses on education, generational change, status, and nationality questions in the stratum of Soviet engineers in the Baltic republics.
He has published two monographs: Soviet Nomenklatura and Industry in Lithuania in 19651985 (2011; in Lithuanian) and Governing the Soviet Unions National Republics: Second Secretaries of the Communist Party in Republics of the Soviet Union 19551991 (Routledge, 2021). He is also co-author of several monographs in Lithuanian, including A Political Biography of Algirdas Brazauskas (first edition 2018, second edition 2019), and author of a number of research articles, including in the journals Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Ab Imperio and Journal of Baltic Studies.
Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History, University of Gloucestershire, UK, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests centre around Soviet womens history, including womens life stories and everyday lives, and the victims of the Great Terror under Stalin. She is an international consultant and participant in the research projects The Last Soviet Generation in the Contexts of Changing Modernity (20172019) and Global Migration and Lithuanian Family: Family Practices, Circulation of Care and Return Strategies (20172019), funded by the Research Council of Lithuania, and a member of the international research network for the project Salt Babies: Narrating Maternity in Russian and Comparative Literatures (20212022) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).
She has published extensively in the field of Soviet history. Recent publications include: a monograph Soviet Women Everyday Lives (Routledge, 2020); a co-authored monograph (with Kelly Hignett, Dalia Leinarte and Corina Snitar), Womens Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Easter Europe (Routledge, 2018); a co-authored article (with Laima ilinskien), Changing Family Values across the Generations in Twentieth-century Lithuania in Contemporary Social Science, 2020, vol. 15(3); and editorship of The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union (Palgrave, 2018), and (with Dalia Leinarte) The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies (Routledge, 2016).
Before his untimely death, Vilius Ivanauskas (19792018) was Senior Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History for the project The Last Generation in the Contexts of Changing Modernity. His research interests included studies of Lithuanian governing institutions in the Soviet era, the cultural elite, the centreperiphery relationships between Soviet elites, and the transformation and adaptation of social groups during post-Soviet transition.
He published widely. His books include: Lithuanian Nomenclature in the Bureaucratic System: Between Stagnation and Dynamics (19681988) (Vilnius, 2011); Framed Identity: Trajectories of Lithuanian Writers in the Empire of Friendship of Nations
