Dr. Vladas Sirutavičius
Associate professor
Department
Department of Political Philosophy and History of Ideas
Department of International Relations
Research areas
Comparative Politics and Political Sociology
Additional info
sirutavicius@yahoo.com
vladas.sirutavicius@gmail.com
Vladas Sirutavičius received his Ph.D. (History) from Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas in 1993. Senior scientific researcher in the Lithuanian Institute of History from 1995 to the present. He is also teaching in Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science.
V. Sirutavičius specializes in ethnopolitics, nationalism. He published a dozen of articles on Lithuanian Jewish and Lithuanian Polish relations. Now his main academic focus is late Stalinism and de Stalinization in Lithuania and East-Central Europe. On this topic he published a couple of articles in Lithuania, Hungary and Russia.
V. Sirutavčius was visiting prof. at Creighton University (Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 1998) and at the University of Illinois (Chicago, USA, 2001). Member of the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention of national minorities Council of Europe 2002 – 2006.
He is also a member of editorial board of „Lietuvos istorijos metraštis“.
Research projects
- International project “COURAGE: Cultural Opposition – Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in Former Socialist Countries” (Researcher). Project financed by EU programme “Horizon 2020” (2016–2019).
- “The Nationalism connecting epochs: the deconstruction of nation in interwar, soviet and post(Soviet) Lithuania” (Researcher). Project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (2011–2013).
- “Stalinism in Lithuania 1944–1953” (Researcher). Project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (2010–2013).
- “Lithuanian Jews. Historical Study” (The head of the project). Project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (2008–2010).
Courses taught
State and Society in Eastern Europe and Russia: From Autocracy to Democracy
Theories of social revolutions and movements: A comparative analysis
Central European Studies
Master's Colloquium
Research interests
Modernization in Central and Eastern Europe
Interethnic Relations in Central and Eastern Europe
Central and Eastern European Studies
Anti-Semitism in Lithuania (before 1940)
Publications
Sirutavičius, V. (2020). „Government Policy Towards the Jews“ in Vladas Sirutavičius, Darius Staliūnas, Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė (Eds.), The History of Jews in Lithuania. From the Middle Ages to the 1990’s. Leiden: Ferdinand Schöningh.
Sirutavičius, V. (2020). „Outbreaks of Antisemitism“ in Vladas Sirutavičius, Darius Staliūnas, Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė (Eds.), The History of Jews in Lithuania. From the Middle Ages to the 1990’s. Leiden: Ferdinand Schöningh.
Sirutavičius, V. (2020). „Perestroika, Sąjūdis, 11 March 1990, and the Lithuanian Jews“ in Vladas Sirutavičius, Darius Staliūnas, Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė (Eds.), The History of Jews in Lithuania. From the Middle Ages to the 1990’s. Leiden: Ferdinand Schöningh.
Sirutavičius, V. (2017). Lietuviai ir Lietuvos lenkai. Lietuva ir Lenkija 1988 – 1994 metais. Vilnius: Lietuvos istorijos institutas.
Sirutavičius, V., Staliūnas, D. (Eds.) (2011). A Pragmatic Alliance: Jewish-Lithuanian political cooperation at the beginning of the 20th century. Budapest-New York: CEU Press.
Laurinavičius, Č., Sirutavičius, V. (2008). Lietuvos istorija. T. 12, d. 1, Sąjūdis: nuo „Persitvarkymo“ iki Kovo 11-osios. Vilnius: Baltos lankos.
