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The Baltic Revolution - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence (Paperback, "4th Ed., Fully Rev. and Updated")
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The Baltic Revolution - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence (Paperback, "4th Ed., Fully Rev. and Updated")
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World attention has focused on the newly independent Baltic states
of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, as they struggle to become
politically and economically viable. In this timely book, Anatol
Lieven presents an intimate and engaging portrait of the history
and culture of the Baltic states from their ancient origins to
their contemporary status. He explores the culture and personality
of the Baltic peoples, their religious and racial differences,
their relations with Russia and with the West, and their prospects
for the future. Lieven begins by describing the ancient Baltic
peoples, their conquest by the Christians, the evolution of the
Lithuanian empire and their union with Poland, and the experience
of the Baltic provinces under the Russian Empire. He 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 discusses the
class structure of the Baltics and the ethnic tensions that have
existed between the Germans, Jews, Poles, and Russians who live
there. Drawing on a wide range of sources including interviews,
newspaper accounts, and his own observations, he describes and
analyzes the rise of national movements in each of the three
countries after Glastnost. He concludes by discussing the new
constitutions and the elections of 1992, the current forces of
order, the demolition of the Soviet economies, and the
possibilities for democracy and Europeanization or for ethnic
conflict and nationalist dictatorship.
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