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In fourteen original essays, Baltic scholars offer bold views and fresh empirical perspectives on the events that have shaped the Baltic region throughout the twentieth century from the Great War, to ensuing wars of independence and interwar sovereignty, to World War II and post-war Sovietization experiments, to the fall of the Soviet Union.
List of contents
Introduction: War, Revolution, and Governance: The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth Century
Lazar Fleishman and Amir Weiner
From Self-Defense to Revolution: Lithuanian Paramilitary Groups in 1918 and 1919
Tomas Balkelis
The Latvian War of Independence 1918-1920 and the United States
¿riks J¿kabsons
Nation-Building and Gender Issues in Inter-War Latvia: Representations and Reality
Ineta Lipša
The Political System and Ideology of Karlis Ulmanis¿s Authoritarian Regime, 15 May 1934 ¿ 17 June 1940
Aivars Stranga
The Rise of the Radical Right, the Demise of Democracy, and the Advent of Authoritarianism in Interwar Estonia
Andres Kasekamp
The Czechoslovak Crisis and the Baltic States, 1938: A Fateful Year for the Baltic States
Magnus Ilmjärv
Government, Society, and Political Crisis in Lithuania, 1938-1940
Art¿ras Svarauskas
Latvia, Nazi German Occupation, and the Western Allies, 1941¿1945
Uldis Neiburgs
Memory of World War II and the Politics of Recognition: An Outline of the Post-1989 Mnemohistory of Estonian ¿Freedom-Fighters¿
Ene Kõresaar
Discrediting the Diaspora: The KGB Search for War Criminals in the West
Kristina Burinskait¿
After Stalin: The Kremlin¿s ¿New Nationalities Policy¿ and Estonia in 1953
T¿nu Tannberg
Doubly Marginalized People: The Hidden Stories of Estonian Society (1940-1960)
Aigi Rahi-Tamm
Women in the Soviet Latvian Nomenklatura (1940¿1990)
Daina Bleiere
The 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
Saulius Grybkauskas
About the author
A native of Latvia,
Lazar Fleishman has published and edited numerous works on Russian and East European history, literature and culture. He is Professor of Stanford University and has also taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton and other universities in the U.S. and Europe.
Amir Weiner teaches history at Stanford University. He is the author of
Making Sense of War, Landscaping the Human Garden and numerous articles and edited volumes on the impact of World War II on the Soviet polity, the social history of WWII and Soviet frontier politics. His forthcoming book,
The KGB: Ruthless Sword, Imperfect Shield, will be published by Yale University Press in 2019.
Summary
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.
