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1 online resource (320 pages). |
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Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society |
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Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.
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| Note |
Papers from a workshop held in December 2013 in Uppsala. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
State, nation, and sovereignty amidst uncertainty and change: turning points and continuities in Latvian society and polity / David J. Smith -- Death and transfiguration: reflections on World War I and the birth of the Latvian state / Andrejs Plakans -- Latvians as a civic nation: the interwar experiment / Marina Germane -- Why remember Paul Schiemann? / David J. Smith -- The return of the gods?: authoritarian culture and neo-paganism in interwar Latvia, 1934-1940 / Deniss Hanovs and Valdis Teraudkalns -- "Come on Latvians, join the party--we'll forgive you everything": ideological struggle during the national communist affair, summer 1959 / Geoffrey Swain -- "At first we missed our Latvia ...": attitudes towards Latvian state during the Soviet period / Irena Saleniece -- Latvians in exile and the idea of the Latvian state / Ieva Zake -- International reactions to the independence of the Baltic states: the French example, 1989-1991 / Una Bergmane -- "You are not the people": revisiting citizenship and geopolitics / Li Bennich-Bjorkman -- Post-Soviet Latvia: a consolidated democracy in the third decade of independence? / Geoffrey Pridham -- The Europeanisation of Latvia's public policy: the case of foreign aid policy, 2004-2010 / Peteris Timofejevs Henriksson -- Paradoxes of power: gender, work, and family in the new Europe / Daina S. Eglitis -- Reflections on the political economy of the Latvian state since 1991: the role of external goals: what to do now that externally defined goals have been realised? / Alfs Vanags -- The unbearable myth of convergence: episodes in the economic development of Latvia / Aldis Purs -- The roots of radicalism: persistent problems of class and ethnicity in Latvia's politics / Matthew Kott. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Nation-building -- Latvia -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Nation-building -- Latvia -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses.
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Latvia -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Latvia -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
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Smith, David J. (David James), 1968- editor.
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Print version: Latvia--a work in progress? : 100 years of state- and nation-building. Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, c2017 320 pages Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society. 9783838206486 (DLC) 2017427269 |
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9783838206486 |
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9783838267180 (e-book) |
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