Lietuvos persitvarkymo sąjūdžio vietinio lygmens organizacijos 1988-1990 metais: struktūros ir socialinė analizė ; Local level organizations of Lithuanian movement for Perestroika in 1988 -1990: structural and social analysis

Appealing to the documents‘collection of the Lithuanian movement for Perestroika (LMP, Sąjūdis) which had never been published before, it is beeing analysed in this thesis the structure of LMP, motives of the integration into the movement of the individual members of Sąjūdis, questiones of (non) existance of the membership and social analysis of the local and central level‘s structures of LMP members. The aim of the thesis – appealing to the published and archival sources, scholar literature to describe and to analyse circumstance of the creation of the local level organizations of Sąjūdis and further creation of inner structure of the organization as well as social structure of LMP‘s members, their ability to participate in Sąjūdis‘ power structures which coordinated activities both on the local level and in whole Lithuania. The methods applied in the thesis were analytic-descriptive, comparative, case study, statistical mathematical and interview. The research showed that during 1988-1990 LMP as organization was composed of 53 regional LMP organizations where a definite number of active (registred) members of Sąjūdis participated in their activities. The bigest part of them worked in the support groups which were created on territorial and professional base. Members of the Regional structures of Sąjūdis became Lithuanian citizens of mostly 21-50 years old, who were born or educated in the occupied Lithuania. They were both- members of Communist‘ party and former exiles or political convicts.