Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883-1940
Dangiras Mačiulis and Darius Staliūnas Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883-1940 According to the 1897 general census of the Russian Empire, the percentage of Lithuanians in the city of Vilnius stood only at 2.1 per cent. At the same time, Lithuanian activists also had no allies in their struggle for the creation both of territorial autonomy first and later of an independent state “within its ethnographic boundaries”...
