Lietuvos politinės dešinės radikalizacija XX a. ketvirtajame dešimtmetyje ; Radicalisation of Lithuanian political right in the 4th decade of 20th century

Article describes reasons and expres- sion forms of the radicalization process in interwar Lithuanian right wing politi- cal parties and political movements in the 3 and especially in the 4th decade of the 20th century. On the ground of the parties' sympathies to the proportion on the legislative and executive powers domination in the State authority, nation- alism, religion and traditionalism, right wing political parties and movements of the parliamentary period (1920-1926) could be divided into conservative, moderate and radical. Under this clas- sification Lithuanian Nationalist Union is ascribed to be a conservative right, because of its negative point of view to the Lithuanian parliamentary system, political parties and radical socio-eco- nomic reforms that were implemented in the newbom Lithuanian republic. Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party is regarded to be a moderate right party. On the one part, despite radical laws, such as Land reform and others, which were passed by the Christian Democrats and on the other hand despite the Catholic conservatism in the sphere of education, this party always took moderate right position among the Lithuanian political parties of the left (Social Democrats and Populists) and of the conservative (LNU) and radical right. Latter sort of Lithuanian political right is named Ultra radicals. It was marginal move- ment composed mostly of young aged picaroons, within hardly expressed structure. Because of the conservative and agrarian Lithuanian social structure, radical right didn't have any popularity in the third decade of 20"' century. But public opinion changed during the 4th decade. Next part of the publication searches answers about the reasons for such change and shows in what forms radicalism was expressed.