Cultural versus political christian democrats: Debating the Idea of (Christian) Democracy in Lithuanian Exile

• Autores: Justinas Dementavičius
• Localización: Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century: Catholic Christian Democrats in Europe and the Americas / Wolfram Kaiser (aut.), Piotr H. Kosicki (aut.), 2021, ISBN 978-94-6166-422-8, págs. 191-222
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • To talk about Lithuanian Christian Democracy in exile is to talk about the history of Lithuanian Christian Democracy writ large.¹ The two are inseparable, because more than a century’s worth of history of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic movement was marked by close links with the Lithuanian diaspora.At the beginning of the twentieth century, due to vast economic emigration to the USA and studies of Lithuanians in Western European and Russian universities, a vivid Lithuanian culture was forming outside the area of ethnic Lithuanian lands. As a result, many important events took place, and seminal political works were written by...