Dovile Budryte
Dovilė Budrytė is a Professor of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College. Her publications include articles about the Baltic states and five books, Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the Post–Soviet Baltic States (2005), Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma and Empowerment in Post–Transitional Societies (co-edited with Lisa M. Vaughn and Natalya T. Riegg, 2009), Memory and Trauma in International Relations: Theories, Cases and Debates (co-editor with Erica Resende, 2013), Engaging Difference: Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences in Multicultural Environments (co-editor with Scott Boykin, 2017), and Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective (co-editor with Erica Resende and Didem Buhari-Gulmez). In 2014/15, she was the recipient of the University System of Georgia Excellence in Teaching Award. CONTACT: [email protected]
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The study differs from other works on ethnic minorities and nationalism in the former Soviet Union by exploring the use of minority rights discourse and the salience of historical memory. Case studies examine the transformation of nationalism in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – all former Soviet republics – which have experienced Soviet nationalities policy first-hand.
The presentation is based on the oral testimonies and written memoirs of two women, Rakhel’ Margolis and Aldona Vilutienė (neé Sabaitytė), who were partisans in Lithuania during the Second World War (Margolis) and its aftermath (Vilutienė) and created the first museums dealing with the Second World War and its legacy in post‐Soviet Lithuania. In addition to being partisans, both women experienced trauma—Margolis, a Jew, was a Holocaust survivor; Vilutienė, an ethnic Lithuanian, was deported to the Gulag. These traumatic experiences feature prominently in their narratives.
Read as stories about what it was like to be a woman during a partisan war, the narratives include some common themes: widespread betrayal, the difficult physical conditions that they had to endure as women and the vulnerability that came with these experiences. Read as stories told by memory entrepreneurs, the narratives reveal that the two women acted as mnemonic warriors fighting for competing memory regimes built on opposing gender ideologies. The analysis of the two stories is an introduction to the complicated memory landscape of post-Cold war Lithuania.
Kristina Šliavaitė. Socialinis ir istorinis teisingumas daugiaetninėje Lietuvos visuomenėje: sampratos, patirtys ir kontekstai.
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