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Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g 1. |t Wunderkind in Reborn Latvia: Background, Education, and Civil Service Career, 1908-1938 -- |g 2. |t 'The Most Active and Influential Member of the Cabinet': Minister of Finance, 1938-1939 -- |g 3. |t 'Better to Die Standing Up Than to Keep on Living on Your Knees': War, Resignation, and Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 -- |g 4. |t 'Elected to Lead and Manage Latvian National Affairs': The Janus Face of Collaboration, July 1941 to November 1942 -- |g 5. |t 'Made No Bones about His Antipathy to the German Regime': The Janus Face of Resistance, November 1942 to May 1945 -- |g 6. |t 'I Had Committed All My Heart and My Efforts to Latvian Exiles': Refugee Politics, 1945-1948 -- |g 7. |t 'Starting Anew Like Our Fathers Did after the First World War': Immigrant in Canada, 1948-1950 -- |g 8. |t 'Develop of Perish': The Challenges of Newfoundland, 1950-1955 -- |g 9. |t 'The Past, Instead of Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself': The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954. |
| 520 | 8 | |a 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 | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "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 | |
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