Abstract
This essay examines some of the factors which helped to shape the political life and political attitudes of the Lithuanian immigrants who settled in Scotland in the 1890s and early 1900s. Political emigres were few in number in the community but they exerted considerable influence and encouraged full and active participation in trade union and Socialist politics. An analysis is given of the effect that this had within the immigrant community and on relations with the local population and the authorities. It will be argued that the politicization of the immigrants and their association during the First World War with the revolutionary Marxism of Vincas Mickevicius‐Kapsukas, the most important of the political emigres, led ultimately to the virtual demise of any form of political activity among the immigrants.
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