{"product_id":"war-revolution-and-governance-the-baltic-countries-in-the-twentieth-century-9781618116208","title":"War, Revolution, and Governance: The Baltic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: War, Revolution, and Governance: The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLazar Fleishman and Amir Weiner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Self-Defense to Revolution: Lithuanian Paramilitary Groups in 1918 and 1919\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTomas Balkelis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Latvian War of Independence 1918-1920 and the United States\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eĒriks Jēkabsons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNation-Building and Gender Issues in Inter-War Latvia: Representations and Reality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIneta Lipša\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Political System and Ideology of Karlis Ulmanis’s Authoritarian Regime, 15 May 1934 – 17 June 1940\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAivars Stranga\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rise of the Radical Right, the Demise of Democracy, and the Advent of Authoritarianism in Interwar Estonia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndres Kasekamp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Czechoslovak Crisis and the Baltic States, 1938: A Fateful Year for the Baltic States\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMagnus Ilmjärv\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGovernment, Society, and Political Crisis in Lithuania, 1938-1940\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtūras Svarauskas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLatvia, Nazi German Occupation, and the Western Allies, 1941–1945\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUldis Neiburgs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMemory of World War II and the Politics of Recognition: An Outline of the Post-1989 Mnemohistory of Estonian “Freedom-Fighters”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEne Kõresaar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscrediting the Diaspora: The KGB Search for War Criminals in the West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKristina Burinskaitė\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Stalin: The Kremlin’s “New Nationalities Policy” and Estonia in 1953\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTōnu Tannberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoubly Marginalized People: The Hidden Stories of Estonian Society (1940-1960)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAigi Rahi-Tamm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen in the Soviet Latvian Nomenklatura (1940–1990)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaina Bleiere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Communist Party Second Secretary in the Soviet Republic as the Interpreter of Moscow’s Decisions: The Case of Nikolai Belukha in Soviet Latvia in 1963-1978\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaulius Grybkauskas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359753535831,"sku":"9781618116208","price":82.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/war-revolution-and-governance-the-baltic-countries-in-the-twentieth-century-9781618116208","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}