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An Unimagined Community? Examining Narratives of the Holocaust in Lithuanian Textbooks

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2011 marked 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. This represented a change not just in the content of schools or ideologies, but in the relationships between individuals, institutions, and systems. During this time, the post-Soviet Republic of Lithuania not only had to reimagine its national identity in a local context, but it also had to reimagine itself as a community within the political,economic, and historical imaginations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU). Therefore, in Lithuania, as in many other post-Soviet countries, debates over which events should or should not be included as part of the national identity, and thus represented in the school curriculum, are more than just discussions about educational content; they are debates over the moral legitimacy of certain narratives and the ability of sovereign states to define them.

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269–292

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Link to article (paywalled), An Unimagined Community? Examining Narratives of the Holocaust in Lithuanian Textbooks

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Beresniova, Christine An Unimagined Community? Examining Narratives of the Holocaust in Lithuanian Textbooks. (Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation. Sense Publishers. 2014: 269–292.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1007/978-94-6209-656-1_13