Straipsnyje, remiantis pirminiais šaltiniais ir įvairiomis mokslinėmis bei mokslo populiarinimo publikacijomis, pristatomas ir nagrinėjamas neeilinės asmenybės – Aloyzo Valušio – skauto, Lietuvos Respublikos kariuomenės karininko, kavaleristo, Generalinio štabo pulkininko, Prezidento Antano Smetonos asmens adjutanto – gyvenimo kelias. Tyrimu sie¬kiama apžvelgti ir įvertinti A. Valušio gyvenimo kelią, priežastis ir aplinkybes, formavusias jį kaip aukšto rango karininką ir Lietuvos atstovą diplomatinėje tarnyboje, karo atašė pareigose. Straipsnyje aptariama A. Valušio šeima, jaunystės metai, nagrinėjama tarnyba Lietuvos ka¬riuomenėje, glaustai pristatomos patirtys diplomatinėje tarnyboje, aprašomos visuomeninės veiklos ir emigranto dalia. Atskleidžiami pagrindiniai A. Valušio gyvenimo etapai, kurie suformavo įvairiaspalvį šios asmenybės portretą.

A great variety of nationalities were represented in the army of the First Lithuanian Republic as well as the Lithuanian society. Though the ma jority were Lithuanians, there were also Russians, Poles, Germans, Ukrainians, Latvians, Jews and citizens of other nations. The aim of the present article is to analyse the national and religious make-up of the Lithuanian army. However, this article is just a starting point for further researches. In the period under investigation, the Jewish national minority was the most numerous. Accord ing to the census of 1923, the Jews amounted to 7,58% of the total population. Generally speaking, it can be noted that the national make-up of the army corresponded to the general distribution of nationalities in the state. In the article this tendency is illustrated by abundant statistical data presented in tables. Differently from the soldiers, the corps of officers was formed from a greater number of Lithuanians. It was influenced by the nationalistic political orientation of the state, rad ical army leaders, the organisers of the coup on December 17, 1926, and the attempts to make the officers' corps more Lithuanian. The Jewish na tional minority made a significant contribution both to the army and the state. Since 1933, the Jews were the only ones who had an official public paramilitary organisation. The army leaders were tolerant to the soldiers of all the nationalities and religions and provided favourable conditions for the celebration of both state and religious festivals. In the second half of the twenti eth century, under the menace of a new war, the military leaders of Lithuania gave very favour able evaluation of the Jews serving in the Lithuanian army.

As computer technologies are starting to affect the sphere of historical studies, this article attempts to present a brief overview the possibilities to apply computer corpora to the analysis of the role of the army in our society by revealing what army images and associations exist in society. There are two periods of the Lithuanian State, i.e. the declaration of the Republic and the reestablishment of its sovereignty. Hence there are two armies, i.e. the one that defended, created and supported the sovereignty of the pre-war Lithuanian Republic where- as the second is a constituent part of the state system of the present Lithuanian Republic. The present article aims to answer the following questions: what was the image of the first army and what is associated with the second army? In the analysis of the army of the pre-war Lithu- anian Republic the main problems were the choice of sources and the subjectivity of the study itself. For the study of the army of the present Lithuanian Republic and its significance in society, computer technologies, or, more specifically, computer corpora and their means of processing data were used. Computer corpora enabled us to use and effectively process large amounts of texts, which made it possible to distinguish the most frequent contextual partners of the words under investigation. The results revealed certain tendencies that prevail in our society or influence it. The present investigation is also an attempt to prove the necessity to combine a variety of methods because different methods lead to different results, and this approach enables a researcher to see the totality. Finally, the results of the analysis have shown that it would be purposeful to apply computer technologies to analyse the pre - war texts by creating a specialised data - base.

The aim of this article is to present archives in foreign countries to the explorers of the Lithua- nian army. It presents Polish, Russian and Czech archives where a great number of documents re- lated to the Lithuanian army in the period from 1918 to 1940 are kept. The documents include dif- ferent military orders, reports, documents of mil- itary attache and diplomats. The Polish Central Military Archives in Warsaw, The State Archives of the Russian Federation, the collection of the Centre of Historical - Documentary collections, the Russian State Military Archives in Moscow, the Czech Military Historical Archives and the Central State Archives in Prague are introduced. In addition, the article provides the numbering of documents and sections where these documents are kept.