Pergalė Explained

Pergalė (meaning Victory in English) was a literary magazine in Soviet Lithuania issued between 1942 and 1990.

Profile

Pergalė was started in 1942^[1] as a literary supplement to the army newspaper Motherland is Calling ("Tėvynė šaukia") of the 16th "Lithuanian" Rifle Division (Soviet Union), hence the name.^[2] The magazine had its headquarters in Vilnius.^[1] It included articles about nature in addition to those on literary work.^[3]

Editors in chief

• Juozas Pajaujis – 1942
• Kostas Korsakas – 1943–1944
• Petras Cvirka – 1945
• Juozas Baltušis – 1946–1954
• Jonas Šimkus – 1954–1958
• Vladas Mozūriūnas – 1958–1964
• Algimantas Baltakis – 1964–1976, 1985–1990
• Juozas Macevičius – 1976–1985
• Juozas Aputis – 1990

External links

• Worldcat

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pergalė - Catalog. University of Wisconsin-Madison Library. 23 April 2015.
2. Žurnalistikos enciklopedija. ("Encyclopedia of Journalism") – Vilnius, Pradai, 1997
3. Book: Mindaugas Kvietkauskas. Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism: Lithuanian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period. 23 April 2015. 2011. Rodopi. 978-94-012-0728-7. 85.