Collective memory in the landscape of the town of Šiauliai during the 20th century

The article surveys the expression of the collective memory in the landscape of the town of Šiauliai during the 20th century (until the restitution of independence of Lithuania in 1990). The fonns of expression of the collective memory and images representing the collective memory that have acquired material fonns in the landscape of the town are analysed in the text. Moreover, the article surveys the impact that policy of the collective memory implemented by the state has made on formation of the landscape of the town. It is maintained that the landscape of the town of Šiauliai was being consistently signified by the marks of the collective memory throughout the 20th century. The collective memory was materialised in all possible forms - to begin with local toponymy and to end with urban projects that have emerged under the influence of the images of the collective memory. It is proposed that the main "engineers" of implementation of the images of the collective memory in the landscape of the town through the 20th century were political regimes that employed the collective memory in pursuance of realising nadonalistic ideals during the period of interwar in Lithuania as well as forming Soviet identity and indoctrinating public ideology during the Soviet time. All projects intended for expression of the collective memory used to turn into materialised images of political discourse and official historical narrative of that period