Dr. Ieva Bačiūnė is a research scholar at Lithuanian Institute of History, and a lecturer at Vilnius University. In 2022 she defended her thesis “Abandonment of Children in Soviet Lithuania: parents, unwanted children, and the state”. Ieva’s field of study is Soviet social history, areas of interest include family planning policies and everyday practices, family ideology and history of childhood.
Ieva has published these articles:
Balčiūnė, I. (2025). A woman with a pillow on her belly: semi-legal adoption practices in Soviet Lithuania. Social History, 50(2), 224–251. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2025.2466335
Balčiūnė, I. (2025). Sovietization of Women in Lithuania: Representations of Motherhood and Family Planning in the Magazine Tarybine Moteris (1952–1989). In H. Hein-Kircher, E.-M. Hiemer, & D. Nešťáková (Eds.), Challenging Norms: Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe (1st ed., Vol. 7, pp. 314–333). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.21299959.18
