ABSTRACT

In 1990, after 50 years of Soviet occupation, Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union. The case for the restoration of Lithuanian independence was made by Juozas Urbšys, one of the last surviving ministers of the pre-war republic, whose testimony about the Soviet invasion of 1939 resembles the work of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. These stories unite communities around transcendent goals that justify revolt and revolution. Placing Urbšys’s memoirs in the same bin as these detective stories, I demonstrate how Burke’s sociological criticism of literature uncovers strategies for naming the situation of Lithuania during perestroika and argue that Urbšys work served Lithuanians as functional equipment for living in 1988 paving the way for the restoration of independence in 1990.

摘要

1990年，在苏联占领了50年之后，立陶宛宣布脱离苏联独立。战前共和国最后幸存的部长之一尤扎斯·乌尔比斯（JuozasUrbšys）提出了恢复立陶宛独立的论据，他对1939年苏联入侵的证词类似于达西耶尔·哈米特（Dashiell Hammett）和雷蒙德·钱德勒（Raymond Chandler）的著作。这些故事将社区团结在超越目标之上，这些目标为反抗和革命辩护。我将乌尔比斯的回忆录与这些侦探小说放在一起，展示了伯克对文学的社会学批评如何揭示了在围封时期命名立陶宛情况的策略，并论证了乌尔比斯的工作为立陶宛人提供了1988年生活的功能性设备，为重建铺平了道路。于1990年获得独立。