LITHUANIAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES	ISSN 0024-5089 Copyright © 2018 LITUANUS Foundation, Inc. www.lituanus.org
Volume 64, No.3 - Fall 2018 Editor of this issue:Almantas Samalavičius

Abstract:

Antanas Smetona’s Lithuanian Sense of Freedom, or What do We Know About Interwar Authoritarianism?

Algimantas Jankauskas

Abstract
The purposes of this article are the following: to expand the scope of political ideas about the inter-war period by seeking to determine whether the turning point away from democracy was unique to Lithuania or was a general ideological concept of “authoritarianism” and its ideological forces by relying on the political writings of Antanas Smetona; to consider whether the ideological legacy of Antanas Smetona is today a relic or something worth updating and revising. In general the present article is a reconsideration of Antanas Smetona authoritarian rule and its implications.