The Baltic Nations and Europe: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century

by John Hiden, Patrick Salmon

Overview

Of all the Soviet Union's subject nationalities, the three Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, were the most determined and best organised in seizing the opportunities created by glasnost and perestroika to win freedom from Moscow's grip.
At the time of first publication, in 1991, the final section of the book was speculative. Now for this revised edition, the authors have provided a new final chapter which brings the story up to date -- and the three republics to political independence again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317890560
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Hiden, John; Salmon, Patrick

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 Awakening; Chapter 1 Against the Odds; Chapter 2 War, Revolution and Independence; Part 2 States of Europe 1918–40; Chapter 3 Building New States; Chapter 4 The Diplomacy of Survival; Chapter 5 The Economics of Survival; Chapter 6 Lives of the Hunted; Part 3 Eclipse 1940–85; Chapter 7 Casualties of War; Chapter 8 Soviet Winter; Part 4 Reawakening; Chapter 9 Baltic Spring; Chapter 10 Planning to Leave; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 11 Independence and After (March 1994);

Editorial Reviews

'a welcome addition to the scholarship on the republics and their road to independence. Hiden and Salmon, historians by trade, provide an excellent treatment of Baltic history...and offer important clues to the origins of nationalism among each of the three ethnic groups.'
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