13 articles in this issue
Vytenis Almonaitis
The capture of the Marienwerder Castle, or where the Teutonic Order’s expansion to the East was stoppedThis paper analyzes the construction, features, and significance of the Marienwerder castle, and its capture by Lithuanian forces in 1384. Located in wh... see more
Andrii Danylenko
A missing chain? On the sociolinguistics of the Grand Duchy of LithuaniaThe article critically assesses the theory of communicative networks and its applicability in the study of multilingualism as found in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL). The author a... see more
????? [Olga] ?????????-????????? [Mastianica-Stankevic]
The question of gentry and the Lithuanian national project: the example of the newspaper Litwa (1908–1914)At the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th centuries some national movements in the Eastern and Central Europe actualized the question of how to in... see more
Joanna Gierowska-Kallaur
Stanislaw Bulak-Balachowicz. He who could have united the nations of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, yet did notRevered, fluent in all Borderland languages, an excellent soldier; Stanislaw Bulak-Balachowicz, back when he was a subordinate of Nikolai ... see more
Dangiras Maciulis
The images of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Union of the Kingdom of Poland in Lithuanian collective memory (end of the 19th c. – 1940)Since the end of the 19th century the Lithuanian national movement created several narrations about national histo... see more
Eugeniusz Mironowicz
The dynamics of development of the ethnic structure of Belarus after World War IIDuring the Second World War, Belarus lost more than 1.5 million inhabitants. In 1944–1946, as part of the repatriation process, 226,000 Poles left for Poland. With the constr... see more
Wojciech Sleszynski
From international history to one’s own history – Belorusian minority in PolandAfter World War II the Belarusians who did not leave Poland could gain upward mobility only if they avoided displaying their national and cultural distinctiveness. Belarusians ... see more
??? [Jerzy] ???????? [Gordziejew]
Urbanonymic discourse in the post-Soviet BelarusThis article attempts to analyze the current state of the Belarusian urban namespace. This toponymic study covers selected Belarusian cities and shows the clash of different discourses and strategies of soci... see more
Justyna Barbara Walkowiak
On divergent etymologies of Polish and Lithuanian surnamesThe conflict of national Polish and Lithuanian historiographies typically involves divergent interpretations of the shared history, but it is seldom noticed that linguistic interpretations (includi... see more
Ieva Garda-Rozenberga,Mara Zirnite
Ethnic diversity in the construction of life stories in LatviaLatvian society is ethnically diverse and has the largest proportion of ethnic minorities of the three Baltic States. The article draws upon life-story research with respondents from Russian an... see more
Helena Krasowska
From individual to collective identity: the case of autobiographical accounts from the Ukrainian-Russian and Ukrainian-Romanian borderlandsThe article presents the problem of cultural memory of Poles from two different regions of Ukraine, the south-east o... see more
????????? [Aliaksandr] ????????? [Smalianchuk]
About the tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, “Kresy Wschodnie” and the role of Poland and Poles in the history of Belarusians and LithuaniansSeveral prominent historians and researchers of historical memory from... see more
Malgorzata Kasner
Maciulis, D., & Staliunas, D., Vilnius – Lietuvos sostine: problema tautines valstybes projekte (XIX a. pabaiga – 1940 m.) [Vilnius – The capital of Lithuania: A problem in the project of the national state (late 19th century – 1940)], Vilnius: Lietuvos i... see more