| Title |
Sąjungininkai ir (ar) priešai: tautinių mažumų įvaizdžiai Lietuvos šaulių sąjungos, Latvijos Aizsargi ir Estijos Kaitseliit ideologijose |
| Translation of Title |
Allies and/or foes: the image of ethnic minorities in the ideologies of the Lithuanian riflemen’s union, the Latvian Aizsargi, and Estonian Kaitseliit. |
| Authors |
Vitkus, Hektoras |
| DOI |
10.15181/ahuk.v28i0.929 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Acta historica universitatis Klaipedensis: Paramilitarism in the Eastern Baltics, 1918-1940: case studies and comparisons = Paramilitarizmas Rytų Baltijos regione 1918-1940: atvejo studijos ir lyginimai.. Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla. 2014, [t.] 28, p. 223-259.. ISSN 1392-4095. eISSN 2351-6526 |
| Keywords [eng] |
paramilitarism ; Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union ; Aizsargi ; Kaitseliit ; ideology ; images of ethnic minorities |
| Abstract [eng] |
This paper deals with concepts of images of ethnic minorities in the ideologies of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union, the Latvian Aizsargi, and the Estonian Kaitseliit, with the aim of identifying factors that predetermined qualitative changes in these images in the different periods of activity of these paramilitary organisations. In addition, possible functions of the images of ethnic minorities in the ideologies of the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian riflemen are analysed. The study is based on the presumption that, in the ideologies of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union, the Latvian Aizsargi and the Estonian Kaitseliit, the formation of the images of ethnic minorities in the different periods of activity of these organisations (the struggles for independence, the formation of the parliamentary system, authoritarian coups and presidential power, and national political crises) was predetermined by the practice of attaching ethnic groups to the relative camps of allies or foes, and by the policy of dividing ethnic minorities into groups of ‘reliable’ and ‘unreliable’. |
| Published |
Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2014 |
| CC license |
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