Bandymas apčiuopti šaknis: ideologinės Lietuvos šaulių sąjungos ištakos | Trying to Grasp the Roots: The Ideological Origins of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union

Abstract

For the first time in Lithuanian historiography, this paper examines the theories of guerrilla warfare formulated by Polish military theorists, such as Karol Bogumił Stolzman, Piotr Wysocki, Henryk Kamieński and Ludwik Adam Mierosławski, and analyses the links between Polish paramilitarism and the origins of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union, and the formation of the ideological views of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union, given the experience of similar organisations in East-Central Europe (Sokol, Suojeuskunta), and the links between the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union and the paramilitary movements formed in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Keywords

• paramilitarism
• Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union
• Sokol
• Suojeluskunta
• ideology