Istremti is tevyne : tremtiniu ir politiniu kaliniu nuotrauku albumas = Deported from the homeland : photo album of deportees and political prisoners  Expelled From the Homeland: Photo Album of Exiles and Political Prisoners 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2575375B

  Author(s)

  Navakauskas, Benas

  City

  Vilnius 

  Country

  Lithuania 

  Language

  Lithuanian; English 

  ISBN

  9786098298437 

  Date of Publication

  2023 

  Publisher

  Lietuvos gyventoju genocido ir rezistencijos tyrimo centras  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  571 

  Subject

  Ethnic Studies / Ethnology

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Navakauskas, Benas

  Publisher

  Lietuvos gyventojų genocido ir rezistencijos tyrimo centras  

• Description

  Expelled From the Homeland: Photo Album of Exiles and Political Prisoners The publication "Expelled from the Homeland. Photo album of deportees and political prisoners / Deported from the Homeland. Photo Album of Deportees and Political Prisoners" is awarded in 2023. to commemorate the declared year of exiles and political prisoners. 1940-1990 in Soviet-occupied Lithuania, about 300,000 people suffered from political repressions. people. The aim of terror was to destroy the structure of the independent Lithuanian society, to change the ethnic composition of the country, to eliminate from society both those who actively resisted the occupation regime and those who were unsuitable for the "construction of communism" due to their social status and family ties. The album contains about 700 photographs, which consistently reconstruct the fates of Lithuanian exiles and political prisoners: experienced terror, forced labor in Soviet industry, as well as survival strategies, preservation of traditions, unarmed resistance in places of exile and Gulag camps, burial places of the dead. The texts of the publication are prepared in Lithuanian and English.