A prominent Lithuanian geographer, geopolitician, public-spirited person Kazys Pakštas became famous with his inspiring ideas, projects, visions. The present article analyses one of the most controversial ideas from K. Pakštas’s creative heritage – the idea of the second „spare“ Lithuania. On the base of the works of the scientist, which were written both in the Republic of Lithuania and exile, the author discusses the social economic aspect which mutured the position of the researcher towards the Lithuanian emigrants, reconstructs the idea of concentrated colonisation.
A part of the article is devoted to the studies by K. Pakštas of the Lithuanian anthropological economy and capacity, of the problem of overpopulation and the ways to solve it. K. Pakštas was the first one, who tried to single out the main stages of transatlantic Lithuanian mass emigration and foresaw a rather quick vanish of Lithuanian emigrants. On the ground of the evidence drawn from Italy, Germany, Poland, Russia and the other states, K. Pakštas formulated the idea of planned emigration and concentrated colonisation, analysed the circumstances for colonisation in the South and North America, Africa, Australia and other countries. Even after a long research, the scientist could not provide the answer to the question which place is best suited for the colonisation. He was sure, that an important reserve of lithuanianism for a little nation in a dangerous region could be the well-administered emigrants rallied to a carefully selected place. |
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