The XX Congress of the Soviet Union Communist Party which took place in February 1956 became symbol of radical reforms in the Soviet Union. Liberation processes started in many fields of the totalitarian state: in political and social life, in culture, in science and art. New changes rapidly reached allied soviet republics where “thaw” also began.
This article raises the question: Was the year 1956 the beginning of new discourses, polemics and “revolt” against old methodological-ideological postulates in the soviet Lithuanian historiography?
The illusion of possible changes in history research in 1956 was created by Lithuanian Communist Party (LCP) itself which organized several meetings with | 
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