Valstietiškoji kultūra, visuomenė ir laikas: besikeičiantis Lietuvos kaimas XX amžiuje ; Peasant culture, society and time: changing Lithuanian village over the 20th century

Abstract

The land there was an axis of life that centres the worldview, rituals and worships, cultural lifestyles, and symbolic representations, routine ofdaily life and celebrities, and connects the tradition of ancestors and of living people into one unbreakable chain (Baudouin de Courtenay-Ehrenkreutzowa 1930/1998). After the reconstruction of statehood of Lithuania in 1918, and during the Interwar period of 1920's - 1930's the individual strategies of households started to change actively under the land reform of 1922, and new agricultural politics established on the national level. A self-sufficient peasant became a farmer, who organizes his agricultural activities on the ground of capitalistic way of production, and market economy. However, World War II, and the Soviet annexation interrupted the process. The study underlines that the reestablishment of property rights is not the crucial point and aspect of postsoviet transformations even people used to emphasise this. It is the whole and indivisible set of social, economic, technological, moral, and symbolic questions that come together with the reestablishment of property rights that is significant in understanding of those transformations, and social worlds oftoday.