Lithuania: The Rebel Nation

ISBN-13: 9780813318394 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 260 str.

Vytas Stanley Vardys; Judith B. Sedaitis; Judith B. Sedaitis

Opis

In 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to break with the communist empire by declaring the restitution of political independence. Depicting a country at the crossroads of imperial designs, Vardys and Sedaitis trace the history, development, and ultimate triumph of the Lithuanian nation.They begin by exploring Lithuania's pagan ancestry and epochal struggles with Germanic and Russian states, with special emphasis on the first period of political independence between the two World Wars and on the effort to regain freedom in the wake of the perestroika reforms. The authors conclude by examining Lithuania's struggle with the legacy of Soviet rule as it strives to establish democracy and economic prosperity.

Spis treści

Westview Series on the Post-Soviet Republics -- Preface -- About the Book and Author -- At the European Crossroads:Lithuania's Historical Roots -- A Taste of Independence, 1918-1940 -- Foreign Rule:Invasion from the East -- Resistance, Survival, and Reform -- Sąjūdis and the Party: The March Toward Independence -- Between the Kremlin and the West: Securing Independence -- New Beginnings: The Politics of Transition

O autorze

Mrs V Stanley Vardys