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Old news from Lithuania, or politics of willful forgetting
Lithuania is bound to confront one more challenge that arises from its domestic political clashes and cleavages. The center populist Labor Party, and the no less populist but rightwing the Order and Justice Party, have decided to merge, thus forming what they perceive as the third major political party in Lithuania capable of sharing the power structure and competing with the conservative Homeland Union and leftwing Social Democratic Party.(Tęsti...)
From the Revolution of Dilettantes and to the Managerial Revolution
By Leonidas Donskis
The Lithuanian writer Ricardas Gavelis – an iconic though perhaps neglected author in his own country who was especially active in the 1990s once coined the term “the epoch of dilettantes” to describe the explosive proliferation of universities and colleges, both public and private, whose number sky-rocketed almost immediately after the country became independent. Without a shadow of a doubt, one could assume that this reflected a far wider tendency characteristic of the former Soviet “republics” in general. (Read more..)
The Source of Success
By Leonidas Donskis
One of the most prominent and perceptive experts on the former Soviet Union, the French historian, philosopher, and political scientist Alain Besançon once suggested that “failure to understand the Soviet regime is the principal cause of its successes.”(Tęsti...)
