Lithuanian Awakening: How a Book Ban Rebirthed a National Identity

Autor/in	Williams, Elise
Titel	Lithuanian Awakening: How a Book Ban Rebirthed a National Identity
Quelle	In: History Teacher, 55 (2021) 1, S.137-152 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2745
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Books; Censorship; Intellectual Freedom; Indo European Languages; Written Language; Resistance to Change; Nationalism; Identification (Psychology); Lithuania; Russia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Politische Zensur; Akademische Freiheit; Intellektuelle Unabhängigkeit; Indoeuropäisch; Geschriebene Sprache; Nationalismus; Litauen; Russland
Abstract	In 1864, the Russian empire placed a ban on all forms of the written Lithuanian language in order to subdue the people of Lithuania and to shape the country's culture into the Russian norm. The ban made a variety of Lithuanian books, as well as many other forms of Lithuanian communication, illegal. Over the next 40 years, Lithuanians resisted this Russian oppression in many ways, including finding loopholes in the law, starting secret schools, and smuggling books across the country's border. In time, the resistance would not only save the Lithuanian culture, but would set the foundation for independence by saving the Lithuanian language, separating Lithuania from foreign powers, and, most importantly, reforming the country's identity. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01