TY - JOUR TI - Lithuanian Political Thought in the Twentieth Century and its Reflections in Sajudis: What Kind of State Have Lithuanians Been Fighting For? AU - Dementavičius, Justinas T2 - Contributions to the History of Concepts AB - This article deals with the question of the conceptualization of state (Lith. valstybe) in twentieth-century Lithuanian political thought and its reflections in Sąjūdis, the Lithuanian independence movement, during the years 1988-1990. It is a commonly accepted myth that Sąjūdis restored the language of Lithuania's interwar period and thus the nation-centered, nationalistic paradigm of that period. A closer look at the political discourse of the interwar period suggests that it is misleading to talk about this kind of restitution. Furthermore, considering the fact that it is important to take into account the Soviet paradigms of the state that influenced Lithuanian political discourse for fifty years, the article finds arguments for speaking about a continuation of Soviet political discourse. Thus, along with restitution, it is possible to find continuities while conceptualizing state in Sąjūdis. While analyzing the meaning and semantic fields of those concepts, it is possible to draw arguments about the real nature of the political transformation of Soviet Lithuania. DA - 2011/// PY - 2011 DO - 10.3167/choc.2011.060105 DP - IngentaConnect VL - 6 IS - 1 SP - 89 EP - 110 LA - English ST - Lithuanian Political Thought in the Twentieth Century and its Reflections in Sajudis UR - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/coco/2011/00000006/00000001/art00005 KW - #nosource KW - State ER -