Experiences of Collective Trauma and Political Activism: A Study of Women ‘Agents of Memory’ in Post-Soviet Lithuania

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Notes

Notes

1 All of these interviews were conducted in the Lithuanian Seimas (parliament) in Vilnius. The interview with Dalia Teišerskytė took place on 20 May 2008, the interview with Vincė Vaidevutė Margevičienė on 17 June 2008, and the interview with Vida Marija Čigrejienė on 19 June 2008. I would like to thank the journalist Ingrida Vėgelytė for helping to arrange and conduct the interviews with Margevičienė, Teišerskytė and Čigrejienė. All interviews were carried out in Lithuanian and subsequently translated by the author.

2 The interview with Zinaida Jakimavičienė and Julija Pėžaitė took place in their home in Vilnius on 20 June 2008. I would like to thank the journalist Inga Junčienė for helping to arrange the interviews.

3 This party, which became part of the ruling Homeland Union–Christian Democrat coalition in 2008, claims to have approximately 40,000 supporters in Lithuania (most, if not all, of them are former deportees/political prisoners or their relatives).