The Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of
Europe and its international significance can be obscured by
separate treatments of the various Baltic states. With this
wide-ranging survey, Andrejs Plakans presents an integrated history
of three Baltic peoples - Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians - and
draws out the common threads to show how it has been shaped by
their location in a strategically desirable corner of Europe.
Subordinated in turn by Baltic German landholders, the Polish
nobility and gentry, and then by Russian and Soviet administrators,
the three nations have nevertheless kept their distinctive
identities - significantly retaining three separate languages in an
ethnically diverse region. The book traces the countries' evolution
from their ninth-century tribal beginnings to their present status
as three thriving and separate nation states, focusing particularly
on the region's complex twentieth-century history, which culminated
in the eventual re-establishment of national sovereignty after
1991.
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