Acta Baltico-Slavica  

Malgorzata Kasner,Mindaugas Kvietkauskas

Introduction: On culture of memory in Central and Eastern EuropeThis issue of the Acta Baltico-Slavica, entitled “Baltyckie i slowianskie konteksty (nie) pamieci” (The Baltic and Slavic contexts of (non-)memory, vol. 42/2018), is devoted to interdisciplin... see more

Karolina Cwiek-Rogalska

Memory in words: On the inadequacy of terms (A Czech-Polish-German example)This article is devoted to the inadequacy of the Polish and Czech terminology related to the displacement of German-speaking communities after 1945. Discussing the example of the t... see more

Dorota Golek-Sepetliewa

The dichotomy of memory in post-communist BulgariaThe democratic breakthrough of 1989 in Bulgaria has resulted in a clearly problem-oriented approach of society towards memory and the past. The process of developing an efficient model of reckoning with th... see more

Alvydas Nikžentaitis

Memory culture and historical politics in today’s RussiaConsidering that other countries are still conducting their studies, it is too early to make conclusions and summarise the question of Russia’s memory culture and historical politics. However, it is ... see more

Agnieszka Slowikowska

At the peripheries of memory: (Non-)memory about the past of Slovak Hungarians in twenty-first-century Slovak literatureThe aim of this article is to analyse the portrayal of Hungarians in the context of the Second World War in twenty-first-century Slovak... see more

Walentyna Krupowies

1919: Memory of Vilnius – memory in VilniusThis article applies the framework of three types of memory – individual, communicative and cultural – as an effective tool for describing the phenomenon of “circulation” of the content of memory in communities o... see more

Mindaugas Kvietkauskas

A challenge to collective memory: Yitskhok Rudashevski’s Diary of the Vilna GhettoThis article aims to analyse the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski (1927–1943), the story of its writing and publication and the existing biographical material about the author.... see more

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The language situation of the Slavic minorities in Latgale in the interwar period (according to the narratives of the informants)This article presents the language situation of the Slavic minorities (Russians, Poles and Belarusians) in Latgale in the 1920... see more

Krystyna Rutkowska

A linguistic and cultural image of the manor in LithuaniaThe aim of this article is to provide a description of the linguistic-cultural vision of the manor on the Baltic-Slavic border. The object of the analysis is autobiographical narratives of the oldes... see more

Alma Ragauskaite

The patterns of recording the names of German residents in Kedainiai in the nineteenth century: Introductory remarksThe article analyses the patterns of recording German surnames in the town of Kedainiai in the nineteenth century on the basis of about 350... see more

Vasilijus Safronovas

Who fought for national freedom? On the significance of the Great War in interwar LithuaniaEven though the First World War was caused by tension in the east of Europe, not so long ago, quite a number of historians, as if repeating the words of Winston Chu... see more

Grazyna Szwat-Gylybowa

On the conscience of bordersThis article reflects on the paradoxes inherent in our thinking on liminal territories, which ranges from affirmation to contestation. Its metaphorical title paraphrases Elias Canetti’s idea of the “conscience of words” and bri... see more

Aliaksandr Smalianchuk

Oral history in Belarus: Present state and development trendsThe oral history in Belarus has become an important line of enquiry in the humanities and a significant field of interdisciplinary dialogue. It also functions as an important research practice. ... see more

Darius Staliunas

Hybrid identities in the era of ethno-nationalism: The case of the krajowcy in LithuaniaThis article deals with the identification of the so-called krajowcy – a relatively small group of Polish-speaking activists in Lithuania and Belarus in the late ninet... see more

Aurimas Švedas

Forms of dialogue between memory and history in the Lithuanian humanities after 1990: On the use of oral historyThis article is devoted to the tradition of research using the method of oral history which has developed in the Lithuanian humanities since th... see more

Malgorzata Kasner

“What remains of life?...”Prof. Dr hab. Algis Kaleda (2.10.1952 – 11.05.2017)This article is devoted to Professor Algis Kaleda, a renowned Lithuanian literary scholar, specialist in Polish literature and Lithuanian comparative literary studies, and a prom... see more

Ilga Jansone

In memoriam: Aina Blinkena (5.09.1929 – 22.11.2017)Professor Aina Blinkena passed away on 22 November 2017. Upon her graduation from the Latvian State University in 1953, she began working for the Institute of Language and Literature of the Latvian SSR Ac... see more

Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa

The names of values in the linguistic worldview of LithuaniansReviewKristina Rutkovska, Marius Smetona, Irena Smetoniene. Vertybes lietuvio pasaulevaizdyje. Monografija [Values in the linguistic worldview of Lithuanians: A monograph]. Foreword in Polish a... see more