A History of the Baltic States

ISBN-13: 9781137573643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 235 str.

A. Kasekamp

Opis

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania experienced a sequence of foreign regimes, including Nazism and communism, before recovering their independence and joining the European Union. This is a thoroughly updated new edition of Kasekamp's history of the region, providing an engaging comparative overview of these countries from the stone age to the present.

Spis treści

List of Maps Preface Europe's Last Pagans Lithuania's Expansion and Medieval Livonia (1290-1560) The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Rise of Sweden and Russia (1560-1795) The Long Nineteenth Century Under Tsarist Rule (1795-1917) The Short Era of Independence (1917-1939) Between Hammer and Anvil (1939-1953) Soviet Rule (1953-1991) Return to the West (1991-2016) Chronology Further Reading Index.

O autorze

Andres Kasekamp is Professor of Baltic Politics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has served as the editor of Journal of Baltic Studies. His previous publications include The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).