The factor of pro-capitalism contradictions in the 2003-2004 political crisis in Lithuania

In article, the state of Lithuania’s politics in 2003-2004 has been looked into through the prism of the analytical dimension of a political crisis. The causes of the political crisis have been analyzed by methods of political sociology. Attention has been focused on the contradictions of post-communist pro-capitalism. Emphasis has been placed on the fact that crisis is actually the expression of the lack of adequate reaction of the political process to the procapitalism contradictions. In the presence of crisis, a question in put forward whether the establishment of political democracy in Lithuania can be considered to be truly irreversible