Studentai varpininkai ir politika (1923-1940 m.)
| Author | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
LT |
| Date |
|---|
2015 |
Straipsnyje, remiantis gausia archyvine medžiaga, daugiausia dėmesio skiriama Lietuvos universitete, kuris nuo 1930 m. pavadintas Vytauto Didžiojo universitetu (VDU), studijavusiems studentams varpininkams: aiškinamos jų korporacijų įsteigimo aplinkybės, sudėtis, įvardijami jų lyderiai. Kadangi studentai varpininkai buvo glaudžiai susiję su Lietuvos valstiečių liaudininkų sąjunga, nagrinėjami jų tarpusavio santykiai, analizuojamos studentų varpininkų suartėjimo su komunistais priežastys.
In the inter-war Lithuania political parties sought to expand their influence on the youth, primarily in the prestigious national school of higher education, Vytautas Magnus University, and to rejuvenate the party with new intellectual forces in the future. Therefore, the organizations and corporations of university students were usually established following the ideological principle: Catholic, nationalist, social-democratic, peasant populist - organizations of students the Varpininkai, etc. The Nationalists pro¬tected the corporation Neo-Lithuania; the Social Democrats took care of Žaizdras and other students' associations. The Lithuanian Peasant Populist Union, which sought to have as much influence on students as possible, thus growing the party members of a new generation, acted in a similar way. Whereas more active students of the Varpininkai movement used to join this party upon graduation, their activities were inseparable from politics. Historiography approaches the students of the Varpininkai movement controver-sially. The works of general type published in the inter-war period, as well as in exile, present them as the movement having nothing in common with politics. During the Soviet times, the activities of students the Varpininkai, like the overall activities of the Peasant Populists, received no attention, whereas the latest studies indicate that the association of the Peasant Populists Varpas was "a circle of intellectuals of Communist type". [...].