All publications · Violeta Davoliūtė

By theme · All publications, by type and date

Books and edited volumes

From Memory Activism to Public History: Commemorating Turning Points in Central and Eastern Europe, edited with Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Dovilė Budrytė (De Gruyter, Media and Cultural Memory, open access, forthcoming).
The Routledge Handbook of Memory in Post-Socialist Europe, edited with Dovilė Budrytė (Routledge, forthcoming).
Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, edited with Bradley Woodworth and Darius Staliūnas (Amsterdam University Press / CEU Press, 2026); series Crisis, Conflict and Security in Central and Eastern Europe; open access.
Everyday Representations of War in Late Modernity, with Nerijus Milerius, Lukas Brašiškis, and Agnė Narušytė (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Narratives of Exile and Identity: Soviet Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States, edited with Tomas Balkelis (CEU Press, 2018).
Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century: Experiences, Identities and Legacies, edited with Tomas Balkelis (Brill, 2016).
The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War (Routledge, 2014).
Maps of Memory: Trauma, Identity and Exile in Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States, edited with Tomas Balkelis (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, 2012).

Special issues (guest-edited)

“Slow Memory: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe,” with Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Monika Vrzgulová, Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 72, no. 4 (2024).
“Memory Activism between Values and Interests: Monuments, Museums and Institutions,” with Thomas Cauvin and Dovilė Budrytė, Politologija 112 (2023).

Journal articles

“Guardians of the Archive and the Memory of War in Soviet Films after the Thaw,” Journal of Modern European History 24, no. 3 (2026): 383–402.
“From Monologue to Dialogue? Museums, Memory, and Identity in the Vilnius Region,” with Neringa Latvytė, Ignė Rasickaitė, and Rūta Vyšniauskaitė, Lituanus 72, no. 1 (2026).
“The Topography of Transgression: Non-Jewish Testimony to Plunder during the Holocaust in the Lithuanian Provinces,” S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation 12, no. 4 (2025): 4–22.
“Sąsiedzkie spojrzenie na Sąsiadów. Debaty w Litwie na temat Holokaustu” [Neighbors Look to Neighbors: Debates over the Holocaust in Lithuania], with Stanislovas Stasiulis, Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały 21 (2025): 56–69; English version in Holocaust Studies and Materials (2026).
“Continuity or Change? The Russo-Ukrainian War and Decolonization of Memory in Lithuania,” with Dovilė Budrytė, Global Studies Quarterly 5, no. 4 (2025).
“Decolonisation in Lithuania? Revisiting the Concept of Cultural Resistance under Foreign Rule since 1990,” kunsttexte.de 1 (2024).
“The Gaze of the Implicated Subject,” East European Politics and Societies 37, no. 2 (2023).
“The Rustic Turn during Late Socialism and the Popular Movement against Soviet Rule,” with Odeta Rudling, Canadian Slavonic Papers 65, no. 1 (2023).
“Screening the Holocaust Perpetrator in Lithuania: Purple Smoke (2019) and Izaokas (2019),” Slavic and East European Journal 67, no. 3 (2023): 363–379.
“Agonistic Homecomings: Holocaust Postmemory, Perspective and Locality,” Memory Studies 15, no. 3 (2022).
“The Baltic Model of Civic-Patriotic History,” Journal of Genocide Research 24, no. 2 (2022).
“Local Testimony and the (Un)Silencing of Sexual Violence in Lithuania under German Occupation during WWII,” Humanities 10 (2021).
“Genealogical Writing and Memory of the Holocaust in Lithuania,” East European Jewish Affairs 51, no. 3 (2021).
“The Aesthetics of Justice: Recognition and the Holocaust in Soviet Films of the Thaw,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 15, no. 2 (2021): 104–121.
“State of the Art in Studies of Late Socialism in the Baltic States,” Sovijus 8, no. 1 (2020).
“Cold War Cinema and the Traumatic Turn in Europe: Fact (1980) as a Soviet Mirror of the Holocaust Film,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 14, no. 1 (2020): 57–71.
“Revisiting the TV-Series ‘Holocaust’ Thirty Years On,” Cultures of History Forum (2019).
“Between the Public and the Personal: A New Stage of Holocaust Memory in Lithuania,” Cultures of History Forum (2018).
“L’imbrication des expériences historiques. La mémoire de la déportation des Juifs lituaniens par les Soviétiques” [The Entanglement of Historical Experiences: The Memory of the Soviet Deportation of Lithuanian Jews], Ethnologie française 48, no. 2 (2018): 209–224.
Two articles on Marytė, with Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (2016) and Politologija (2018).
“Pluralisierung unter Schmerzen. Litauens Umgang mit der Vergangenheit” [Painful Pluralisation: Lithuania’s Handling of the Past], Osteuropa 68, no. 6 (2018).
“The Sovietization of Lithuania after WWII: Modernization, Transculturation and the Lettered City,” Journal of Baltic Studies 47, no. 1 (2016).
“Multidirectional Memory and the Deportation of Lithuanian Jews,” Ethnicity Studies 2 (2015).
“Post-war Reconstruction and the Imperial Sublime in Vilnius during Late Stalinism,” Ab Imperio 2014, no. 1 (2014).
“The Prague Declaration of 2008 and its Repercussions in Lithuania: Historical Justice and Reconciliation,” Lituanus 57, no. 3 (2011): 49–62.
“Lithuania and the New West–East Migration,” OIKOS: Lithuanian Migration & Diaspora Studies 6, no. 2 (2008): 73–80.
“Challenges of Trauma: Migration, Integration and the Role of Cultural Competence,” OIKOS: Lithuanian Migration & Diaspora Studies 5, no. 1 (2008): 41–48.
“The Popular Movement and Postmodernism: Reflections on the Cinema of Sąjūdis,” Athena: Philosophical Studies 3 (2007): 124–134.
“Deportee Testimonies and Lithuanian History,” Journal of Baltic Studies 36, no. 1 (2005): 51–68.
“Varlam Shalamov and the Art of Memory,” Canadian Slavonic Papers 46, no. 4 (2004): 1–23.

Book chapters

“From the Long Thaw to the Long Perestroika: Justinas Marcinkevičius, Algirdas Brazauskas, and the Defense of the Post-Soviet Village,” in The Long Perestroika from Below, ed. Juliane Fürst et al. (CEU Press, forthcoming).
“Introduction: Memory as a Field of Struggle,” with Dovilė Budrytė, in The Routledge Handbook of Memory in Post-Socialist Europe, ed. Dovilė Budrytė and Violeta Davoliūtė (Routledge, forthcoming).
“Confronting the Legacy of Soviet Collaboration in the Baltic States,” with Eneken Laanes, in The Routledge Handbook of Memory in Post-Socialist Europe, ed. Dovilė Budrytė and Violeta Davoliūtė (Routledge, forthcoming).
“The Habitus of Holocaust Remembrance during the Thaw in Soviet Lithuania,” in Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, ed. Bradley Woodworth, Violeta Davoliūtė and Darius Staliūnas (Amsterdam University Press / CEU Press, 2026), 327–352.
“The Ethnographic Moment of Lithuanian Poetic Documentary: Last Summer of a Homestead (1971) by Robertas Verba,” in The Art of Witnessing: Documentary Literature, Film, and Theater in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, ed. Johanna Lindbladh and Anja Tippner (Amsterdam University Press / CEU Press, 2026), 113–133.
Woodworth, Bradley, Violeta Davoliūtė and Darius Staliūnas, “Introduction,” in Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, ed. Bradley Woodworth, Violeta Davoliūtė and Darius Staliūnas (Amsterdam University Press / CEU Press, 2026).
“Testimony to Sexual Violence After Liberation in the Holocaust Memoirs of Sara/Hannah Rigler and Primo Levi,” in Shattered Liberation: Sexualized Violence Against Holocaust Survivors, 1943–1946, ed. Nina Paulovicova, Anna Cichopek-Gajraj and Joanna Beata Michlic (Purdue University Press, 2025), 355–372.
“The Securitization of Memory and the Practice of Public History in the Baltic States,” in Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis, ed. Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė and Douglas Becker (Routledge, 2025), 52–70.
“Lithuania. Fractured and Contested Memory Regimes” (Elanders, 2020).
“We Are All Deportees” (CEU Press, 2018).
“Legislated History in Post-Communist Lithuania,” with Tomas Balkelis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
“Entangled History, History Education, and Affective Communities in Lithuania,” with Dovilė Budrytė (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
“A ‘Forgotten’ History of Soviet Deportation” (Brill, 2016).
“Representations of Historical Trauma in the Cinema of Late Twentieth-Century France and Lithuania” (Riga, 2015).
“Testimony of Child Survivors of the Gulag,” in Children and Migration: From Experience to Agency, ed. Jacqueline Knörr (Transcript, 2005).

Short pieces

“Glorification, Whitewashing, Erasure: The Populist Challenge to Dealing with the Past in Lithuania,” Global Learning Hub for Transitional Justice and Reconciliation, Berghof Foundation (2025).
“The Russia–Ukraine War and Historical Memory in the Global South(s),” with Dovilė Budrytė, Lawfare, 30 December 2024.
“Lithuania’s Postcolonial Iconoclasm,” Cultures of History Forum (2023).
“The Pop-Cultural Lineage of Russia’s Anti-Fascist Discourse,” Cultures of History Forum (2022).
“Heroes, Villains and Matters of State: The Partisan and Popular Memory in Lithuania Today,” Cultures of History Forum (2017).
“Two Speed Memory and Ownership of the Past,” Transitions Online (2016).

Book reviews

Review of Making Justice Visible: War Crimes Trials, Media and Memory after World War II, ed. Ruth Leiserowitz, Gintarė Malinauskaitė, and Hektoras Vitkus. Lithuanian Historical Studies 28 (2024): 261–265.
Review of Neapykantos ribos: antisemitizmas Lietuvoje 1944–1990 metais, by Justas Stončius. The Yearbook of Lithuanian History 2 (2024).
Review of Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, by Una Bergmane. H-Diplo / Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, Roundtable Review (15 April 2024).
Review of Different Shades of the Past: History as an Instrument of Contemporary International Conflicts, ed. Mateusz Kamionka and Przemysław Łukasik. Journal of Baltic Studies 55, no. 3 (2024): 698–700.
Review of Lviv and Wrocław, Cities in Parallel? Myth, Memory, and Migration, c. 1890–Present, ed. Jan Fellerer and Robert Pyrah. American Historical Review 128, no. 1 (2023): 434–436.
Review of Mediated Memories: Narratives and Iconographies of the Holocaust in Lithuania, by Gintarė Malinauskaitė. Lithuanian Historical Studies 25 (2021): 259–264.
Review of Holocaust Education in Lithuania. Community, Conflict, and the Making of Civil Society, by Christine Beresniova. Anthropology of East Europe Review 37, no. 1 (2020): 55–58.
Review of Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography, by Polly Jones. Lithuanian Historical Studies 24 (2020): 256–261.
Review of Baltic Socialism Remembered: Memory and Life Story since 1989, ed. Ene Kõresaar. Journal of Baltic Studies 50, no. 4 (2019): 558–559.
Review of The Literary Field under Communist Rule, ed. Aušra Jurgutienė and Dalia Satkauskytė. Lithuanian Historical Studies 23 (2019): 244–246.
Review of The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists, by Tarik Cyril Amar. Journal of Baltic Studies 48, no. 3 (2017): 391–393.
Review of Vilnius Between Nations: 1795–2000, by Theodore R. Weeks. Journal of Modern History 89, no. 3 (2017): 740–742.
Review of Transitional and Retrospective Justice in the Baltic States, by Eva-Clarita Pettai and Vello Pettai. Journal of Baltic Studies 47, no. 3 (2016): 426–428.
Review of No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders, by Ellen Mickiewicz. Transitions Online (2016).
Review of Children of Rus: Right Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation, by Faith Hillis. Transitions Online (2014).
Review of Vilnius: City of Strangers, by Laimonas Briedis. Journal of Baltic Studies 40, no. 1 (2009): 340–342.

Translation

Edward W. Said, Orientalizmas [Orientalism], Lithuanian translation (Vilnius: Apostrofa, 2005).

Dissertation

Testimony: From the Poetics of Place to the Politics of Memory, PhD dissertation (University of Toronto, 2004).