Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. From Self-Defense to Revolution: Lithuanian Paramilitary Groups in 1918 and 1919 1
5. The Latvian War of Independence 1918–1920 and the United States 17
6. Nation Building and Gender Issues in Interwar Latvia: Representations and Reality 30
7. The Political System and Ideology of Karlis Ulmanis’s Authoritarian Regime: May 15, 1934 – June 17, 1940 56
8. The Rise of the Radical Right, the Demise of Democracy, and the Advent of Authoritarianism in Interwar Estonia 76
9. The Czechoslovak Crisis and the Baltic States in 1938: a Fateful Year for the Baltic States 101
10. Government, Society, and the Political Crisis in Lithuania, 1938–1940 140
11. Latvia, Nazi German Occupation, and the Western Allies, 1941–1945 154
12. World War II Remembrance and the Politics of Recognition: An Outline of the Post-1989 Mnemohistory of Estonian “Freedom Fighters” 165
13. Discrediting the Diaspora: The KGB Search for War Criminals in the West 194
14. After Stalin: The Kremlin’s “New Nationalities Policy” and Estonia in 1953 207
15. Doubly Marginalized People: The Hidden Stories of Estonian Society (1940–1960) 239
16. Women in the Soviet Latvian Nomenklatura (1940–1990 266
17. Moscow's Eyes in Latvia: Second Secretary of the Central Committee, Nikolai Belukha, 1963–1978 293
18. Index 304