„Lithuania“ 

It is a study about the revival of the Lithuanian nation.

In this work, the famous specialist of interwar Lithuanian constitutional law and professor of Vytautas Magnus University Mykolas Romeris concisely offers his guidelines towards Lithuanian Polish relations and suggests solutions so the nations could better get along with each other in East-Central Europe in 1919-1939, a place torn by nationalism. In those days, Mykolas Romeris grounded his conception of a democratic modern national culture on the understanding that two important Lithuanian traditions (“the folk” and “noblemen”) were equally important, though not equally significant for the modern culture formation process. Becoming more democratised, the folk subculture retained its ethnic national base – language, habits and others; and without it, a national revival would have been impossible. Also, the noblemen’s culture, influenced by the democratic ideas, continued to foster the former state’s (The Grand Duchy of Lithuania) civil traditions. For both, the attitude that the interaction of those two traditions should form the modern culture of Lithuanian nation was not at all alien.

For this book, as far back as 1908, Mykolas Romeris was nominated for the name of correspondent-member of Lithuanian’s science association.

The book is translated from Polish language by Žilvinas Norkūnas.