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Alfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival /
"Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring is more the stuff of fiction than history. Between 1938, at age 29, and his ironic downfall in the safe haven of Canada, he was a finance minister of pre-war Latvia, a government official during the Soviet invasion, a shrewd collaborator under the Na...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2000.
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| Colección: | desLibris. Books collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring is more the stuff of fiction than history. Between 1938, at age 29, and his ironic downfall in the safe haven of Canada, he was a finance minister of pre-war Latvia, a government official during the Soviet invasion, a shrewd collaborator under the Nazi occupation, then, a friend to the Allies, a spokesman for Latvian POW and displaced persons, and an adviser to the government of Canada In this first serious biography of Alfred Valdmanis, historian Gerhard Bassler casts the story of this political manipulator and chameleon in new terms: the often tragic consequences of the will to survive."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 472 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-456) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442670747 1442670746 1282036912 9781282036918 9786612036910 6612036915 |