Soviet historical science in Lithuania was formed mainly after the Great Patriotic War. The first major generalizing works and monographs of a research nature were published in the 50s-60s. This is due to a number of reasons. Although some of the older historians are I. Ioninas, P. Pakarklis, K. Jablonskis, A. Janulaitis, and Yu. After the end of the war, Jug Zhda and Yu. Yurginis became actively involved in the work, but their efforts were not enough. Therefore, the task of training historians at that time was very acute. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, as well as higher educational institutions of Moscow and Leningrad provided great assistance to Lithuanian historians in this matter. Lithuanian historical science was formed in those years when Soviet historiography showed signs of subjectivism and dogmatism in the assessment of certain events and situations. This led to a slow development of historical science in the republic, which was reflected, in particular, in the late creation of serious research works. For historians of the Lithuanian SSR, Marxist theory and its application in scientific research were not entirely new. The fact is that the first works on the history of the working class and the struggle for Soviet power in Lithuania in 1918-1919 were written back in the 20s and 30s by prominent figures of the Communist Party of Lithuania V. Mickevicius - Kapsukas and Z. Alexa - Angaretis1 . S. Matulaitis 2 and progressive Lithuanian historians and publicists A. Bimba, R. Mizara and others who lived in the USA worked in the same direction at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR3 . Currently, the center of research on the history of Lithuania is the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR, founded in early 1941. It coordinates the scientific activities of the republic's historians. The Institute of Party History und ... Read more