The Baltic revolution : Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the path to independence /

Concealed behind the Iron Curtain, and dominated by Soviet Russia for half a century, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have now emerged to the attention of the world as free and independent nations. As the new republics fight for political and economic viability, Anatol Lieven, the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lieven, Anatol
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1993.
Temas:
HISTORY > General.
Geschichte
Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
Politieke onafhankelijkheid.
Baltic States > History.
Pays baltes > Histoire.
Baltic States
Baltikum
Estland
Latvija
Litauen
Lettland.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Shape of the Land. Marsh and Forest. The Man-Made Landscape. The Baltic Cities. Peasant Peoples
  • 2. Surviving the Centuries. The Ancient Baltic Peoples. The Christian Conquest. The Lithuanian Empire and the Union with Poland. The Baltic Provinces under the Russian Empire
  • 3. Independence Won and Lost, 1918-40. The First Struggle for Independence. Economic and Social Consolidation. The Failure of Parliamentary Democracy, 1920-34. The Roots of Authoritarianism. Orphans of Versailles: Baltic Diplomacy, 1918-40
  • 4. The Troglodyte International: The Soviet Impact on the Baltic. Conquest and 'Revolution'. The German Occupation. Resistance: The 'Forest Brothers'. Stalinism, Normalization, Stagnation. The Soviet Establishment: Past, Present and Future? The Dissidents
  • 5. Imagined Nations: Cycles of Cultural Rebirth. Folklore and Nationalism. The Creation of Language. Myth is History and History as Myth. Cultural Politics in the Reborn States
  • 6. Lost Atlantises: The Half-Forgotten Nationalities of the Baltic. An Area of Mixed Settlement. The Baltic Germans. The Jerusalem of Lithuania. The Frontier of Poland
  • 7. The Baltic Russians. A Question of Identity. The Baltic Russians through History. The List Stand of the Soviet Union. Defending the Legacy of Peter: The Soviet and Russian Military Presence. Kaliningrad and the Kaliningrad Question
  • 8. The Independence Movements and their Successors, 1987-92. A Confusion of Terms. Rise of the National Movements, 1987-90. 'Be Realistic: Ask the Impossible': The Declarations of Independence, 1990. The 'Bloody Events': January to August 1991. The Fragmentation of Politics and the Difficulties of Government: Lithuania. Ethnic Estonian Politics, 1990-92. Ethnic Latvian Politics, 1990-92. The Baltic Independence Movements and the Baltic Russians
  • 9. Building on Ruins: The Recreation of the New States. The Baltic, Year Zero. Achieving Military Control. Industry and Energy. Privatization and Corruption. In the Scissors: Baltic Agriculture. The New Currencies. Banking on Chaos. The Church. Peoples Divided
  • Conclusion: The West and the Baltic States
  • Appendix 1: Historical Chronology, 3500 BC-1985 AD
  • Appendix 2: Contemporary Chronology 1985-92
  • Appendix 3: Baltic Demography and Geography
  • Appendix 4: The Soviet Baltic Economies on the Eve of the National Revolutions (1989-90)
  • Appendix 5: Biographical Guide to Political Figures 1988-92.

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