Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century ― Experiences, Identities and Legacies

"Population Displacement in Lithuania in the XXth Century : Experiences, Identities and Legacies is an edited volume written by historians from several countries offering a series of ground-breaking case studies on forced migration in Lithuania during and between the two World Wars. Starting with the premise that the mass movement of peoples during and after the Second World War needs to be understood in relation to the population displacement of the First World War, the authors draw on theoretical perspectives ranging from entangled histories, cultural theory and studies of nationalism to trace the ethnic, social and cultural transformation of Lithuanian society caused by the displacement of Lithuanians, Poles, Jews and Germans. Contributors are: Tomas Balkelis, Daiva Dapkut, Violeta Davolit, Andrea Griffante, Ruth Leiserowitz, Klaus Richter, Vasilijus Safronovas, Vitalija Stravinskien, Arnas Streikus and Theodore R. Weeks"--Provided by publisher.

Dr. Tomas Balkelis is a visiting scholar at the Centre for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University and a senior researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. Until 2013, he was a European Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, working on paramilitarism and nationalism in the Baltic States. He is the author ofThe Making of Modern Lithuania (Routledge, 2009). His research fields include nationalism, population displacement and military violence. Dr. Violeta Davoliute is a visiting researcher at MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies, Yale University and a senior researcher at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute in Vilnius. She is an author ofThe Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War (Routledge, 2013). Her fields of expertize include trauma studies, cultural memory, Soviet studies and intellectual history.