"Trečio fronto" agonija : paskutinio numerio paieškos

Abstract

Front", a journal conceived by a group of young writers in search of innovations. The last issue, the 6-7th, was prepared over time during the second half of 1931, but it was never published. The dramatic twists and turns of the issue's publication highlight the far more important, far-reaching cultural, social and political trends and processes that ought to be linked to purposeful incursions into the Lithuanian press by communist ideology. At that time the Lithuanian press was turning leftwards. The Third Front" was unable to find a niche of its own despite its experiments in neo-realism and the glorification of the "Lithuanian farm-hand". It thus set out to shock society with attempts at proletarian writing and soon became interested in the theory and practice of building socialism in Soviet Russia. The Front's naive efforts to give voice through literary texts to the idea of class struggle and the need for revolutionary reforms in Lithuania ended with a quick stroke of the censor's pen and the closing of the journal.[...]