Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences

Description

This book explores the impact on different generations of Lithuanians of the fifty-year Soviet modernisation project which was implemented in Lithuania from 1940 to 1991. It reveals the specific characteristics of ‘the last Soviet generation’, born in the 1970s, and sets this generation apart from those who were born earlier and later. It analyses changes in attitudes, choices and relationships in a variety of social spheres and contexts and the adaptation skills which were required during the late Soviet and post-Soviet transformation processes. Overall, it presents a great deal of detail on the social experiences of different generations in late Soviet and post-Soviet society. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Lithuania: Timeline 1. Introduction: Social time and generations 2. Soviet dystopia: Public spaces and modern materialities in late Soviet Lithuania 3. Understandings of crime and deviance in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania 4. The last generation of engineers in Soviet Lithuania 5. Life course as an identity component of the last Soviet generation in Lithuania 6. Identifying the 1970s generation 7. Particularities of the behavioural models of the last Soviet generation 8. Lithuania’s cultural elite, born from 1970 to 1980: Group, class and generational identities 9. The role of religious experience in the formation of life choices, social attitudes and behaviour models of different generations in Lithuania 10. Communicative family memory across generations 11. Lithuania’s gender revolution: Reversed and stalled Bibliography Index