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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bassler, Gerhard P., 1937-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2000.
Colección:desLibris. Books collection.
Temas:
Valdmanis, Alfred, > 1908-1970.
Valdmanis, Alfred, > 1908-1970
Newfoundland and Labrador Corporation > Biography.
Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro Corporation > Biographies.
Newfoundland and Labrador Corporation
1918-1991
Political corruption > Newfoundland and Labrador.
Latvians > Canada > Biography.
Finance ministers > Latvia > Biography.
Ministres des finances > Lettonie > Biographies.
Lettons > Canada > Biographies.
Corruption (Politique) > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Finance ministers
Economic policy
Latvians
Political corruption
Latvia > History > 1918-1940.
Latvia > History > 1940-1991.
Newfoundland and Labrador > Economic policy.
Lettonie > Histoire > 1918-1940.
Lettonie > Histoire > 1940-1991.
Terre-Neuve > Politique économique.
Canada
Latvia
Newfoundland and Labrador
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Wunderkind in Reborn Latvia: Background, Education, and Civil Service Career, 1908-1938
  • 2. 'The Most Active and Influential Member of the Cabinet': Minister of Finance, 1938-1939
  • 3. 'Better to Die Standing Up Than to Keep on Living on Your Knees': War, Resignation, and Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941
  • 4. 'Elected to Lead and Manage Latvian National Affairs': The Janus Face of Collaboration, July 1941 to November 1942
  • 5. 'Made No Bones about His Antipathy to the German Regime': The Janus Face of Resistance, November 1942 to May 1945
  • 6. 'I Had Committed All My Heart and My Efforts to Latvian Exiles': Refugee Politics, 1945-1948
  • 7. 'Starting Anew Like Our Fathers Did after the First World War': Immigrant in Canada, 1948-1950
  • 8. 'Develop of Perish': The Challenges of Newfoundland, 1950-1955
  • 9. 'The Past, Instead of Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself': The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954.

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