{"id":453,"date":"2025-09-23T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/?p=453"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:08:02","slug":"the-politics-of-self-peripheral-perestroikas-in-estonia-and-lithuania-1985-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/en\/the-politics-of-self-peripheral-perestroikas-in-estonia-and-lithuania-1985-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of &#8222;Self&#8221;: Peripheral Perestroikas in Estonia and Lithuania (1985-1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Juhan Saharov<\/strong> (University of Tartu)<\/p>\n<p>The political discourse in the Soviet republics of Estonia and Lithuania experienced a significant conceptual shift from 1985 to 1989. Both republics crafted distinctive &#8222;peripheral perestroika&#8221; languages that challenged central authority in Moscow. Estonia&#8217;s strategy, led by social scientists, highlighted economic sovereignty through self-management (in Estonian, isemajandamine), while Lithuania concentrated on cultural revival and self-reordering (in Lithuanian, persitvarkymas). These linguistic innovations, characterised by the strategic use of &#8222;self&#8221; in both languages, reflected increasing demands for autonomy. This conceptual evolution moved from reformism to nationalism, culminating in both republics discarding Soviet frameworks in favour of independence-oriented languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juhan Saharov (University of Tartu) The political discourse in the Soviet republics of Estonia and Lithuania experienced a significant conceptual shift from 1985 to 1989. Both republics crafted distinctive &#8222;peripheral perestroika&#8221; languages that challenged central authority in Moscow. Estonia&#8217;s strategy, led by social scientists, highlighted economic sovereignty through self-management (in Estonian, isemajandamine), while Lithuania concentrated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstracts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/begaliu-galybe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}