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Author : Alfred Erich Senn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Crisis in Lithuania, January 1991 written by Alfred Erich Senn and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Erich Senn
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333641637
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Gorbachev's Failure in Lithuania written by Alfred Erich Senn and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-06-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world watched first in fascination, then in horror, and eventually in amazement. From 11 to 14 January 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev went to Lithuania to persuade the leaders of that rebel Soviet republic to remain within the traditional Soviet system; from 11 to 13 January 1991, Soviet troops killed unarmed civilians in Vilnius in an effort to persuade the people of Lithuania to overthrow their leaders; then, in September 1991 Gorbachev, presiding over the collapse of the Soviet Union, recognized Lithuanian independence. It was Lithuania, above all, that demonstrated to the world the empire's bankruptcy. The book takes the reader into the maelstrom of politics in three different capitals during the period 1988-91. In Vilnius Lithuanians surged forward in what they called their 'national rebirth'; in Moscow Gorbachev struggled to maintain his position in a crumbling empire; and in Washington the administration doggedly supported Gorbachev as the foundation of its East European policy. In the end the Lithuanians, in a remarkable display of peaceful, non-violent resistance, were the only ones to achieve their ambitions.
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Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Daily Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Iwaskiw
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781490435572
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania: Country Studies written by Walter Iwaskiw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. This volume is about Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Author : V. Stanley Vardys
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429978790
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Lithuania written by V. Stanley Vardys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Lithuania's pagan ancestry and epochal struggles with Germanic and Russian states and examines Lithuania's struggle with the legacy of Soviet rule as it strives to establish democracy and economic prosperity.
Author : Roger D. Petersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139428160
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Resistance and Rebellion written by Roger D. Petersen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes. The book shows how a sequence of casual forces - social norms, focal points, rational calculation - operate to drive individuals into roles of passive resistance and, at a second stage, into participation in community-based rebellion organization. By linking the operation of these mechanisms to observable social structures, the work generates predictions about which types of community and society are most likely to form and sustain resistance and rebellion. The empirical material centres around Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance in both the 1940s and the 1987–91 period. Using the Lithuanian experience as a baseline, comparisons with several other Eastern European countries demonstrate the breadth and depth of the theory. The book contributes to both the general literature on political violence and protest, as well as the theoretical literature on collective action.
Author : George Neimanis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313024375
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Collapse of the Soviet Empire written by George Neimanis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-02-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American academic describes the breakup of the Soviet Union and the formation of an independent Latvia from the vantage point of Riga, where he was acting as an advisor to the Latvian Parliament and was a visiting faculty member at the time of the events. This description is unusual for several reasons—the author was based in Riga rather than Moscow or Leningrad, where most reporters lived, the work was written by someone who had access to the government, and the author was able to understand the local press and people. Background material on the Baltic countries and their relationship to the USSR is discussed. By 1991, the Soviet system was floundering, with people spending an inordinate amount of time standing in lines to cope with shortages. The final breakdown of the Soviet empire began in the Baltic Republics, where Baltic nationalism and Russian nationalism clashed. By the end of 1991, the Baltic countries and most of the former Soviet republics had declared independence. The Soviet Union has bequeathed to the successor states an infrastructure and ethos that makes the transition to democracy and a free market extremely difficult. The work will interest those who want to learn what really happened during the breakdown of the USSR and those who need to deal with the changes that continue to occur in the successor states.
Author : Galina Sapozhnikova
Publisher : Clarity Press
ISBN 13 : 099869472X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (986 download)
Download or read book The Lithuanian Conspiracy and the Soviet Collapse written by Galina Sapozhnikova and published by Clarity Press. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through interviews with leading participants on both sides, prominent Russian journalist Galina Sapozhnikova captures the political and human dimensions of betrayal and disillusionment that led to the collapse of the 20th century's greatest experiment in social engineering, and what happened to the men and women who struggled to destroy or save it. Termed "color" revolutions by the worldwide media as most were designated colors, these various movements developed in several societies in the former Soviet Union and the Baltic states during the early 2000s. In reality, they were US intelligence operations which covertly instigated, supported and infiltrated protest movements with a view to triggering “regime change” under the banner of a pro-democracy uprising . The objective was to manipulate elections, initiate violence, foment social unrest and use the resulting protest movement to topple an existing government in order to install a compliant pro-US government. What were the many tactics deployed in Lithuania, only now recognized as one of the first, to galvanize the popular uprising? Was Gorbachev's role duplicitous and anti-USSR? What was the role of Eugene Sharp in this grand show of historic transformation? Is nationalism a force to be welcomed or feared? How did the political shape-shifters act – the former Komsomol and Communist Party executives, who took high posts in the new “democratic” governments? What happened to the pro-democracy forces and to those they defeated in the aftermath? How has all this worked out for Lithuania? This book not only exposes the process, but sheds light on how these events play out, post regime-change. It is key to grasping the template that today underlies similar events in Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and likely elsewhere, going forward. The Lithuanian revolution may be key among them, a trial run for the August coup against Gorbachev in Moscow and the Soviet collapse that changed the course of world history. To date, The Lithuanian Conspiracy has been published under other titles in Lithuanian, Russian and Italian.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317878876
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Longman Companion to America, Russia and the Cold War, 1941-1998 written by John W. Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference guide throws light on almost every aspect of postwar international history from the rise of Mao's China to the Bosnian Civil War. It provides a huge wealth of information on East-West relations setting events, crises and conflicts in their full international context.
Author : Paul Chilton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027282625
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 19891991 written by Paul Chilton and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1989 brought political upheavals in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the effects of which have not yet ended. The political discourse of the Cold War period disintegrated and gave way to competing alternatives. The contributors to this book are linguists, discourse analysts and social scientists, from all corners of the continent, whose tools of analysis shed light on the crucial two years of transition during which political concepts and political interaction changed in dramatic and sometimes violent ways.
Author : Saulius A. Suziedelis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810875365
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Lithuania written by Saulius A. Suziedelis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Lithuania will serve as a useful introduction to virtually all aspects of Lithuania's historical experience, including the country's relations with its neighbors. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.
Author : Tomas Balkelis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134051131
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern Lithuania written by Tomas Balkelis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that – contrary to contemporary Lithuanian nationalist rhetoric – Lithuanian nationalism was modern and socially constructed in the period from the emergence of the Lithuanian national movement in the late nineteenth century to the birth of an independent state in 1918. The book brings into sharp focus those aspects of the history of Lithuania that earlier commentators had not systematically explored: it shows how, in this period, the nascent political elite fashioned its own and the emerging nation’s identity. Moreover, factors such as the elite’s social isolation, educational experience, marital strategies and narrowly based, fragmented and uncoordinated political activities were crucial factors in shaping identity and nation-building. It demonstrates how the elite was often in conflict with the peasantry, the religious establishment and other ethnic groups, and how critical considerations such as class, religion, displacement and ethnicity – rather than national ideology – were. The book’s conclusion that Lithuanian nationalism is a construct emerging from modern social forces is highly significant for understanding nationalism and contemporary political developments in Eastern Europe more generally.
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Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book January 1991--images of Freedom written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571811240
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Mitteleuropa written by Peter J. Katzenstein and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German unification and the political and economic transformations in central Europe signal profound political changes that pose many questions. This book offers a cautiously optimistic set of answers to these questions.
Author : Pål Kolstø
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253329172
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Russians in the Former Soviet Republics written by Pål Kolstø and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989 left 25 million Russians living in the 'near abroad', outside the borders of Russia proper. They have become the subjects of independent nation-states where the majority population is ethnically, linguistically, and often denominationally different. The creation of this 'new Russian diaspora' may well be the most significant minority problem created by the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Paul Kolstoe traces the growth and role of the Russian population in non-Russian areas of the Russian empire and then in the non-Russian Soviet republics. In the post-Soviet period special attention is devoted to the situation of Russians in the Baltic countries, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine and the former Central Asian and Caucasian republics. A chapter written jointly by Paul Kolstoe and Andrei Edemsky of the Institute of Slavonic and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, delineates present Russian policy toward the diaspora. Finally, Kolstoe suggests strategies for averting the repetition of the Yugoslav scenario on post-Soviet soil.
Author : Mr.Dimitri G. Demekas
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 9781557751904
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Romanian Economic Reform Program written by Mr.Dimitri G. Demekas and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1991-06-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper outlines the main characteristics and the development of the centrally planned economic sysetm in Romania before the beginnings of the transition to a market eonomy it then presents the design, objectives, and implementation of the reform program.
