Abstract
The career of the Soviet statesman and leading ideologue Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (1902–1982) remains relatively understudied, a lacunae which a forthcoming archive-based biography seeks to correct. Amongst the many neglected aspects of his career, his role in Lithuania between 1944 and 1946 has received relatively little scholarly attention, beyond repeating popular dissident accounts of his malign role as an oppressor. This essay revises this popular account, revealing both his unique contribution to local counterinsurgency, and his perhaps surprising support for a formula of ‘national communism’ promoted locally by chairman of the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet Justas Paleckis (1899–1988).
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