The Representation and Interpretation of the Spanish Nationalists’ Ideological Positions in the Periodicals of Lithuanian Right-Wing Parties (1936–1939)

Abstract

The article examines how the newspapers of Lithuania’s right-wing parties, the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and the Lithuanian Nationalist Union, XX amžius and Lietuvos aidas, represented and interpreted the ideological positions of the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Their interpretations are assessed in the context of their respective parties’ ideological positions. The study applies S. M. Lipset and S. Rokkan’s cleavage theory. The findings reveal differing but consistently cautious newspaper evaluations of the faction’s more radical positions.