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War, Revolution, and Governance - The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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War, Revolution, and Governance - The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
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The 20th century in the Baltic region had it all. The turbulent
century did not spare the small territory and its population, which
was visited by practically every calamity the modern era had to
offer. At westward edge of the Russian Empire, the region was
subjected to the harsh Russification drive of the late imperial
era. With diverse religions and nationalities and its geographic
buffer between the Empire and the German Reich, it was also the
crucible of key battles during and mass refugee crises following
World War I. In the interwar period, the rise of the independent
Baltic States precipitated myriad political experiments and
population politics together with constant maneuvering to preserve
their fragile and ultimately short-lived sovereignty. World War II
ushered in a period of unprecedented extremes with waves of brutal
occupations, deportations, the Holocaust, the subjection of the
territory to the communist experiment, and ultimately, the
decimation of state sovereignty for the next four decades. The
almost unavoidable outcome of this course of events has been the
focus on the region from the point of view of the large powers that
sought to dominate and shape it. The rather limited number of
foreign scholars who command Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian,
fortified this orientation in the writing of the history of the
region. The present volume seeks to shift the attention to the
local point of view through the writing of Baltic scholars. By no
means a comprehensive expose, the essays nevertheless explore key
junctures in the history of the three Baltic countries as viewed
"from within," both then and now.
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