A sense of change: projections of the Lithuanian literary field in 1988 (based on material from the literary journal <i>Pergalė</i> )

This article explores the editorial strategies of the Lithuanian ‘thick’ literary journal, Pergalė (Victory), in 1988, when Sąjūdis (the popular front) was established and perestroika shifted into a national revival movement. The network of literary periodicals in Lithuania, created during the Soviet era following a Russian model, began to disintegrate and a new one emerged. This article also aims to discuss the literary criticism published in Pergalė and to display rhetorical heterogeneity, when, in opposing the system, critics still used the resources of Soviet rhetoric.