Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Alfred Valdmanis and the Politics of Survival
-
Gerhard P. Bassler
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2000
About this book
Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring in Latvia, Germany, and Canada from 1938 to 1954 is more the stuff of fiction than history.
Author / Editor information
Bassler Gerhard P. :
Gerhard P. Bassler is a history professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contents
v -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Acknowledgments
vii -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Note on Spelling and Translations
xi -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Abbreviations and Glossary
xiii -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Introduction
3 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
1. Wunderkind in Reborn Latvia: Background, Education, and Civil Service Career, 1908-1938
10 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
2. 'The Most Active and Influential Member of the Cabinet': Minister of Finance, 1938-1939
39 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
3. 'Better to Die Standing Up Than to Keep on Living on Your Knees': War, Resignation, and Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941
73 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
4. 'Elected to Lead and Manage Latvian National Affairs': The Janus Face of Collaboration, July 1941 to November 1942
104 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
5. 'Made No Bones about His Antipathy to the German Regime': The Janus Face of Resistance, November 1942 to May 1945
139 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
6. 'I Had Committed All My Heart and My Efforts to Latvian Exiles': Refugee Politics, 1945-1948
175 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
7. 'Starting Anew Like Our Fathers Did after the First World War': Immigrant in Canada, 1948-1950
220 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
8. 'Develop or Perish': The Challenges of Newfoundland, 1950-1953
247 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
9. 'The Past, Instead of Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself: The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954
278 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
10. 'Only One Could Topple Him from His Height - Himself: Newfoundland's 'Economic Tsar,' 1952-1954
310 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
11. 'Something Had Happened and a Culprit Had to Be Found': Con Man or Scapegoat? 1954-1957
328 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
12. 'Maybe My Luck Is Used Up Already, Maybe Not': Epilogue, 1956-1970, and Conclusions
368 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Notes
391 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
References
445 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
457
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 4, 2000
eBook ISBN:
9781442670747
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
504
eBook ISBN:
9781442670747
Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
