Ultimate freedom-- no choice : the culture of authoritarianism in Latvia, 1934-1940 / / by Deniss Hanovs & Valdis Teraudkalns ; [translator, Laura Bleidere].

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Hanovs, Deniss.
• TeilnehmendeR: Teraudkalns, Valdis.; Bleidere, Laura.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English; Latvian
• Series: Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context, v. 2
• Physical Description: x, 272 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Chapter one. The beginning : how was the coup presented back then?
• Inter-war Latvia : prehistory of the coup, its context
• Why the coup is not a coup, but salvation?
• Ulmanis in foreign media : the Times
• Chapter two. Genesis of a political myth : an official turns into Vadonis
• Chapter three. Staging Atdzimsanas Dziesma : technologies of authoritarianism cultural policy
• How does one stage the principle of authoritarianism? staging of a mass performance as a political program
• "Atdzimsanas Dziesma will invite every Latvian to serve his nation and country by obeying Vadonis" : what is the staging going to say?
• "Atdzimsanas Dziesma depicts the fate of the Latvian people : staging as a liturgy of authoritarianism, Vadonis as a priest and actor
• Chapter four. "Another land" : Latgale region in the discourse of Ulmanis' authoritarian regime on the unity of the nation
• Political performance as a staging of unanimity
• Latgale : the symbolic stepchild and bride
• Latgalians and ethnic unity
• Latgalians and ethnic diversity : the other in the new political culture
• Answers of Latgale's media
• The education law and the technology of the melting pot
• Daugavpils Vienibas Nams : a building as a political message
• Chapter five. The leader, the enemy, war and celebration : authoritarianism practices compared : Stalin and Ulmanis in Latvia's authoritarian culture
• USSR--the land of workers and violence : a dual perception
• Cultural practices of European dictatorships in the 30s
• Stalin and Ulmanis : a functional comparison of leaders
• The enemy : communism and the war of civilizations
• Moscow trials--the globalized political show of the 30s
• Chapter six. Date and place : a celebration of authoritarianism in Rezekne and Riga
• "The harvest booster" : K. Ulmanis as a hero of cyclical time in Sveta Zeme spectacle
• 18 November as a continuation of 15 May : the course of celebration on 18 November 1938
• Chapter seven. "New Riga" : the city as an instrument of authoritarian ideology
• Aesthetization of Ulmanis' ideology : key tendencies and international context
• Ulman Riga
• The Uzvaras laukums : a spatial self-reference
• Chapter eight. Authoritarianism and the Church : attempts to develop Latvian Christianity in 1920s and 1930s
• The relationship policy between the Church and the state under Ulmanis' regime
• The Church : in supranational content and national form
• Ideas expressed by the radical wing of Latvianizers of the Church
• Conclusion.