CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Biziuleviciute, Raminta |
|---|---|
| Title | GENDERED ASPECTS OF THE SOVIET DEPORTATIONS FROM LITHUANIA WITH THE CASE STUDY OF THE OPERATION "VESNA", MAY 22-23, 1948 |
| Summary | In this thesis I analyze the mass deportation from Lithuania in May 22-23, 1948 under the code name ‘Vesna’, when the Soviet authorities in Moscow and in Lithuania organized forced resettlement of around 40,000 Lithuanians to Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk and the Buryat-Mongolian regions. I look into the context of the Soviet deportations from the Baltic countries during and after the Second World War, i.e. the political climate and historical events related with those deportations. I also analyze ten Lithuanian deportees’ memoirs in which they narrated their lives in exile. I attempted to integrate all primary and secondary sources which I had gathered in order to acquire an understanding how the official/political and the personal levels of deportations were interrelated in various forms, such as deportation policies, deportees’ exile experiences and their post-exile narratives. My research concentrates on one of the possible axes of analysis – that is, gender. I ask, how Soviet officials’ assumptions about gender and class, and the contemporary historical context influenced the policies of deportations and how those assumptions and historical situation had various consequences for actual people’s lives: who were targeted as the main ‘anti-Soviet elements’, who were deported, and why more women than men were deported. I also raised questions about the ways in which deportees narrated their gendered experiences in memoirs, and I attempt to reveal how the experiences in exile were related with the deportation policies, due to which there were more women than men in special settlements. |
| Supervisor | Haan, Fransisca de |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/biziuleviciute_raminta.pdf |
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