The Baltic States: The National Self-Determination of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

✍ Scribed by Graham Smith (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Baltic States examines the struggles of the Baltic peoples for national self-determination. It is divided into two parts. Part one explores their nationalist awakening, how the realization of national self-determination during the inter-war years of independent statehood manifested itself, and the impact that fifty years of subsequent incorporation into the Soviet Union has had on Baltic politics and national cultures. Part two examines the nationalist reawakening in the late 1980s, the re-establishment of Baltic national self-governance in 1990-91 and the problems that these countries now face as sovereign entities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: The Baltic Nations and National Self-Determination....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Nationalism and Socialism in Historical Perspective....Pages 13-40
Interwar Statehood: Symbol and Reality....Pages 41-68
Incorporation: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact....Pages 69-85
The Baltic States as Soviet Republics: Tensions and Contradictions....Pages 86-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
The Resurgence of Nationalism....Pages 121-143
The Political Leadership....Pages 144-157
Economic Restructuring....Pages 158-180
Statehood, Ethnic Relations and Citizenship....Pages 181-205
Back Matter....Pages 206-214

✦ Subjects

Russian and Post-Soviet Politics;Russian, Soviet, and East European History;European History;Imperialism and Colonialism;Modern History