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050 00 $aDK502.7$b.L54 1993
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100 1 $aLieven, Anatol.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93000122
245 14 $aThe Baltic revolution :$bEstonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the path to independence /$cAnatol Lieven.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c1993.
263 $a9303
300 $axxv, 454 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
505 00 $g1.$tThe Shape of the Land -- $tMarsh and Forest -- $tThe Man-Made Landscape -- $tThe Baltic Cities -- $tPeasant Peoples -- $g2.$tSurviving the Centuries -- $tThe Ancient Baltic Peoples -- $tThe Christian Conquest -- $tThe Lithuanian Empire and the Union with Poland -- $tThe Baltic Provinces under the Russian Empire -- $g3.$tIndependence Won and Lost, 1918-40 -- $tThe First Struggle for Independence -- $tEconomic and Social Consolidation -- $tThe Failure of Parliamentary Democracy, 1920-34 -- $tThe Roots of Authoritarianism -- $tOrphans of Versailles: Baltic Diplomacy, 1918-40 -- $g4.$tThe Troglodyte International: The Soviet Impact on the Baltic -- $tConquest and 'Revolution' -- $tThe German Occupation -- $tResistance: The 'Forest Brothers' -- $tStalinism, Normalization, Stagnation -- $tThe Soviet Establishment: Past, Present and Future? -- $tThe Dissidents -- $g5.$tImagined Nations: Cycles of Cultural Rebirth -- $tFolklore and Nationalism -- $tThe Creation of Language -- $tMyth is History and History as Myth -- $tCultural Politics in the Reborn States -- $g6.$tLost Atlantises: The Half-Forgotten Nationalities of the Baltic -- $tAn Area of Mixed Settlement -- $tThe Baltic Germans -- $tThe Jerusalem of Lithuania -- $tThe Frontier of Poland -- $g7.$tThe Baltic Russians -- $tA Question of Identity -- $tThe Baltic Russians through History -- $tThe List Stand of the Soviet Union -- $tDefending the Legacy of Peter: The Soviet and Russian Military Presence -- $tKaliningrad and the Kaliningrad Question -- $g8.$tThe Independence Movements and their Successors, 1987-92 -- $tA Confusion of Terms -- $tRise of the National Movements, 1987-90 -- $t'Be Realistic: Ask the Impossible': The Declarations of Independence, 1990 -- $tThe 'Bloody Events': January to August 1991 -- $tThe Fragmentation of Politics and the Difficulties of Government: Lithuania -- $tEthnic Estonian Politics, 1990-92 -- $tEthnic Latvian Politics, 1990-92 -- $tThe Baltic Independence Movements and the Baltic Russians -- $g9.$tBuilding on Ruins: The Recreation of the New States -- $tThe Baltic, Year Zero -- $tAchieving Military Control -- $tIndustry and Energy -- $tPrivatization and Corruption -- $tIn the Scissors: Baltic Agriculture -- $tThe New Currencies -- $tBanking on Chaos -- $tThe Church -- $tPeoples Divided.$tConclusion: The West and the Baltic States -- $tAppendix 1: Historical Chronology, 3500 BC-1985 AD -- $tAppendix 2: Contemporary Chronology 1985-92 -- $tAppendix 3: Baltic Demography and Geography -- $tAppendix 4: The Soviet Baltic Economies on the Eve of the National Revolutions (1989-90) -- $tAppendix 5: Biographical Guide to Political Figures 1988-92.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"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 only western journalist permanently based in the Baltic during the struggle for independence, presents an intimate and engaging portrait of their history and culture, from their ancient origins to the present day. He explores the characteristics and personalities of the Baltic peoples, their religious and national differences, their relations with Russia and with the West, and their prospects for the future." "The book opens with two highly entertaining chapters on the early history of the Baltic peoples, their conquest by the Christians, the evolution of the Lithuanian empire, the union with Poland, and the experience of the Baltic provinces under the Russian Empire. It then looks at the countries' first struggle for independence in 1918, the failure of democracy and the establishment of authoritarian regimes, and the Soviet annexation of the Baltic in 1940." "Lieven draws a revealing portrait of the class structure of the Baltic states and the ethnic tensions that existed between the Germans, Jews, Poles and Russians who have lived there. Drawing on a wide range of sources in several languages, including interviews, newspaper accounts and his own observation, he describes and analyses the reawakening of cultural self-awareness during the late 1980s." "The final section of the book examines the tumultuous years of nationalist struggle (1987-92), the constitutions of the new republics, and the results of their first free elections - in autumn 1992. Lieven comments provocatively on the fragile new order, the demolition of the Soviet economies, and the possibilities for democracy and Westernization, or for ethnic conflict and nationalist dictatorship. His sensitive, passionate and involved account provides a frank and searching exploration of the Baltic peoples and their destiny."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aBaltic States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011370
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