The Rustic Turn during Late Socialism and the Popular Movement against Soviet Rule
The success of mass mobilization in Lithuania against Soviet rule in the late 1980s can be attributed in part to the spread of the ethnographic movement in the post-Stalin era. Characterized in this paper as the “rustic turn,” it began in the late 1950s with the rehabilitation of kraevedenie (local area studies), part of Khrushchev’s effort to rejuvenate grassroots political participation across t