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I Introduction
1. Lithuania on the eve of the Second World War
2. The effects of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact: the loss of statehood
II The First Soviet Occupation 1940 – 1941
1. Crimes of the Soviet Regime
1.1 The Occupation/annexation and Sovietization of Lithuania
1.2 Arrests and other forms of repression
1.3 Mass deportations
1.4 Murders of military and civilians by the Soviets
1.5 The suppression of cultural, religious and economic life. The confiscation/nationalization of the property
2. The Criminal system of the occupation’s policy – the role of the political, police, military, public and legal structures and collaboration with them
2.1 The liquidation of Lithuanian army in 1940-1941
2.2 The criminal system of occupational policy: the role of the occupation’s political and public structures and collaboration with them in 1940 - 1941>
III The Nazi Occupation in 1941 – 1944: The Holocaust and other Nazi crimes
1. The preconditions for the Holocaust in Lithuania
2. The persecution of the Jews
2.1 Murders and other crimes carried out during the first days of the Nazi – Soviet war
2.2 The organized destruction of Lithuanian Jewry
2.2.1 The destruction of Lithuanian Jewry in summer-autumn 1941
2.2.2 The period of ghettos in 1941 - 1944
2.3 The destruction of Jewish inward and cultural inheritance
2.4 The confiscation and/or destruction of Jews property and assets
3. The persecution of non – Jews
3.1 Murders of civilians
3.2 Murders of POWs
3.3 Concentration camps
3.4 Forced labor in Germany
3.5 Confiscation of the property and the suppression of the culture life
4. The role of institutions and individuals participating in the political, police, military, social and legal structures of the occupying power
5. The role of institutions and individuals participating in the local population as perpetrators and/or collaborators in the Holocaust
IV The Second Soviet Occupation: First period (1944 – 1953)
1. Crimes
1.1 Murders of civilian inhabitants, the burning of villages, punitive actions
1.2 Forced mobilization
1.3 Suppression of the armed resistance
1.4 Mass deportations
1.5 Mass arrests and torture
1.6 Expropriation of property and collectivization of Lithuanian farms
1.7 Suppression of religious and cultural life
2. The role of the political, military and legal structures of the Soviet Union, their local units and collaborators in perpetrating crimes
V The Second Soviet Occupation: Second period (1953 – 1990)
1. KGB and the movement of dissidents
1.1 Liberalization of the Stalinist regime – decline of repressions policy and repeal of the GULAG system
1.2 KGB in Lithuania, the consolidation of the state's security
1.2.1 The former and the new forms of activities of KGB in Lithuania
1.2.2 The persecution of otherwise-minded and the "prophylactics" of society
1.2.3 Disinformation of the West world
1.3 The phenomenon of the "Iron Curtain"
1.3.1 Information and human flows’ control. Isolation of the foreigners and their relatives in Lithuania and attempts to implement bans
1.3.2 The struggle against Zionism; attempts to limit the Jewish emigration
1.3.3 Control of the relationship with the foreign countries
1.4 The KGB activities and consolidation of the regime
1.4.1 Dissidents and their persecution, Youth resistance
1.4.2 Chronicle of LCC. The Committee of the Defense of Believers’ Rights. Independence movement
1.4.3 The violation of the Human rights: Psychiatric coercion
1.4.4 The restrain of the ethnic minority’s culture
1.5 Situation of the Church. Restrictions imposed on the Catholic Church and believers’ rights. Policies of enforced atheism
2. The reformation of economics
2.1. Implementation of the Soviet heavy industry model: the consequences of integration of Lithuanian economy into the USSR economy. Negative consequences of the concentrated industry
2.2 Militarization of economical and social life
2.2.1 Militarization of economical life
2.2.2 Militarization of social life
2.3 "The Second collectivization": annihilation of separate farms
2.4 The loss of Lithuanian economy
3. LCP (The Lithuanian Communist Party) and their relations with Moscow
3.1 LCP (The Lithuanian Communist Party) and their relations with Moscow
3.2 Soviet cultural policy
3.2.1 Censorship, political persecution of intelligentsia, book destruction
3.2.2 The fakes of the close past
3.3 Enforcement of political regime
3.3.1 Measures to combat "localism" and "nationalistic" tendencies
3.3.2 Concept of merging the nations. Tendencies of Russification. Russian speakers’ immigration to Lithuania. Demographical changes
3.4 Privileges of the party nomenclature. Corruption
3.5 Implanting the communist ideology. Enforcement of ideological work and communist censorship. The Soviet school: a forge of homo sovieticus
3.6 The Soviet model of "equal opportunities"
3.7 The Soviet army in Lithuania
3.7.1 The Soviet army in Lithuania: wasting the Lithuanian resources
3.7.2 The forced mobilization and the exploitation of the civilians in the military operations
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