CONTENT

INTRODUCTION

• Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Jānis Oga. Introduction: Shifting Literary Culture since Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era: The Baltic Paradigm

ARTICLES

• Māra Grudule, Benedikts Kalnačs. Writing the History of Latvian Literature in the Soviet Period: Problems and Perspectives
• Aušra Jurgutienė. The Cold War in the History of Literature
• Gintarė Bernotienė. “You Were There, Oh Soul”: Color Manifestation of the Sacred and Metaphysical Treatment of Flora in the Poetry by Sigitas Geda, Leonardas Gutauskas, and Jonas Juškaitis in the 1970–1980s
• Donata Mitaitė. Examining the Concept of Space in Soviet Lithuanian Poetry
• Akvilė Rėklaitytė. Meaning Twist: National Images in Lithuanian Poetry of the Late Soviet Period
• Deniss Hanovs. Baltic Nations in Soviet Dissident Literature: The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov
• Zanda Gūtmane, Sigita Ignatjeva. Reception and Translations of Western Modernist Literature in Latvia in the Brezhnev Era
• Heili Einasto. Censorship in Ballet: the Case Study of The Master and Margarita by Mai Murdmaa in the Estonia Theater Ballet Company
• Stella Pelše. Towards Humanism and Stylistic Diversity: The “Open System” of Socialist Realism in Latvian Artwriting of the Stagnation Era
• Sandra Cīrule. Literature, Libraries, Society: Memories of the 1970s