The Hidden Violence of Totalitarianism: Policing Soviet Society in Lithuania

Baločkaitė, Rasa

doi:10.1177/0265691415571253

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“…En otros lugares, el posible desmontaje de ciertas obras desató agudos debates públicos, como el vivido desde 2004 acerca de la suerte que debía correr el Soldado de Bronce -una idealización del Ejército Rojo erigida en Tallin en 1947-que acabó en un cementerio militar en 2007. Otro tanto ha ocurrido con las esculturas del Puente Verde -una alegoría sobre la hermandad entre obreros, campesinos, soldados y estudiantes instalada en Vilna en 1952-, objeto de una intensa guerra cultural que confrontó concepciones opuestas acerca de la historia nacional, sus traducciones simbólicas o la gestión del patrimonio ideológico y estético de la herencia soviética (Baločkaitė, 2015). El monumento a Iván Kónev levantado en Praga en 1980 protagonizó un conflicto análogo, agravado por la ambivalencia del personaje: el mariscal encarnó la salvación de la capital checa en mayo de 1945.…”

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Ver para creer. Los museos sobre el comunismo como espacios simbólicos

Rueda Laffond

2023

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Este artículo propone una panorámica sobre los principales museos dedicados al comunismo en Europa Central y del Este. Se aproxima al estado de la cuestión, que los ha interpretado en relación con la historia pública, las políticas transnacionales de rememoración poscomunista o el influjo de las prácticas de recuerdo del Holocausto. El texto sugiere que estas instalaciones deben ser leídas como narrativas de memoria y que sus relatos resignifican materiales muy dispares que operan a través de una intensa re-simbolización mediante distintas estrategias -espectaculares, empáticas, inmersivas-, orientadas a conmemorar un pasado traumático, pero también a dotarle de una pátina nostálgica. Desde dicho supuesto, en la segunda parte del trabajo se propone una clasificación relativamente flexible de los centros estudiados: los museos de nueva planta entendidos como narrativas del sufrimiento, los configurados desde la autoridad simbólica del lugar de memoria o los que ofrecen una exposición centrada en la vida cotidiana durante el socialismo. El resultado es una imagen, hasta cierto punto poliédrica, que incluye la representación del totalitarismo y el genocidio, el absurdo histórico, la cultura banal o el icono kitsch.

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Ver para creer. Los museos sobre el comunismo como espacios simbólicos

Rueda Laffond

2023

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“…3 For examples of the difficulty of 'heritagising' the Soviet past, see Rasa Baločkaitė (2015) and Oleksandra Gaidai (2015: 137-154).…”

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From the Borderland of the Iron Curtain to European and World Cultural Heritage

Harlov-Csortán¹

2017

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Due to its location at the edge of the Iron Curtain, a constant military presence existed between today's Hungary and Austria from 1949 to 1989. The northern section of this territory is today a transnational nature park and an economically prosperous area. Most of the information materials, either on site or in publications, cover in detail the end of the military presence and reveal much less about the actual events, failed missions, and negative consequences during that almost half-century. This paper investigates this transformation by focusing on image creation between 1989, when a split appeared in the Iron Curtain in the researched territory, and 2015, when this event received international acknowledgement and appraisal in the form of the European Heritage Label. The focus is on the territory of the north-western borderland of Hungary, which became a transnational world heritage cultural landscape in 2001. The article concentrates on the social engineering processes involved in emphasising certain memories and neglecting others during the heritagisation process.

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Neighbourhood opposition to relocation of people with disabilities in Lithuania: ‘fake ethics’ in the community discourse

Mataitytė-Diržienė

Genienė²,

Gevorgianienė

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Community Development Journal

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Like other post-Soviet countries, Lithuania inherited large residential care institutions for people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. The reform aimed at relocating these people to community-based group homes has been met with opposition, and the communities see it as a threat to their habitus. The news media has become an important actor in this process, in its attempt to reproduce public discourse accompanying such social change. Research using case study methodology was implemented to explore the ethical aspects of community participation in deinstitutionalization. It involved observation of different public meetings between central government and communities, content analysis of gathered data and discourse analysis of the news media publications on a resonant case of opposition to the deinstitutionalization. Although other accounts of ethics privilege those of the individual worker or organization, this article looks at the ethics of multiple actors—including the community as an actor, and thus understands ethics as multiple, dynamic and intersecting. In this sense, the account is less about individual workers and more about communities and how they change and develop. Different ethical attitudes of the main actors—Ministry of Social Security and Labour, local authorities, social care institutions and communities, shaping public and news media discourses about deinstitutionalization—were identified in the data collected. Initial unethical community discourse was met with critique from the society at large, and it forced communities to switch to ‘fake’ ethics arguments for opposing deinstitutionalization. Fake ethics was manifested as intentional disguise of prejudices against people with disabilities through citing ethical phrases of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, even though these words contradicted the actions of all parties participating in the discourse. Moreover, people with disabilities themselves, directly affected by the community prejudices, were absent both in public and media discourses, and this entails a risk for their successful inclusion into the community.

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The Hidden Violence of Totalitarianism: Policing Soviet Society in Lithuania

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Ver para creer. Los museos sobre el comunismo como espacios simbólicos

Ver para creer. Los museos sobre el comunismo como espacios simbólicos

From the Borderland of the Iron Curtain to European and World Cultural Heritage

Neighbourhood opposition to relocation of people with disabilities in Lithuania: ‘fake ethics’ in the community discourse

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