Lithuanian intellectuals discussing the short history of Soviet Lithuania prepared by the History Institute. The Central Committee Bureau of LCP wanted to find out whether the official discourse introduced by the Bureau and by director of the Institute Žiugžda follows the requirements of new conditions and whether this discourse is resistant to the possible accuses for political and ideological “mistakes” which could have come from Moscow. The intents of Central Committee of LCP were misunderstood by some humanitarians who, during the general session of Science Academy in February 1956, tried to provoke the discussion on the current situation in History Institute and to propose new director of the Institute. Elite of LCP ruined the possibility of radical changed by supporting Žiugžda and his scientific opponents were accused with “bourgeois nationalism”.

For this reasons the year 1956 in Lithuanian soviet historiography did not become the beginning of radical changes but rather the period of status quo. With the changes of soviet system this status quo also altered gradually giving for historians more “freedom of manoeuvre”. However we could not speak about quick and essential “thaw” in the soviet Lithuanian historiography after 1956.