Latvia--a work in progress? : : 100 years of state- and nation-building / / David J. Smith (ed.).
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| Superior document: | Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Stuttgart : : Ibidem-Verlag,, [2017] 2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages). |
| Notes: | Papers from a workshop held in December 2013 in Uppsala. |
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Table of Contents:
- State, nation, and sovereignty amidst uncertainty and change: turning points and continuities in Latvian society and polity / David J. Smith
- Death and transfiguration: reflections on World War I and the birth of the Latvian state / Andrejs Plakans
- Latvians as a civic nation: the interwar experiment / Marina Germane
- Why remember Paul Schiemann? / David J. Smith
- The return of the gods?: authoritarian culture and neo-paganism in interwar Latvia, 1934-1940 / Deniss Hanovs and Valdis Teraudkalns
- "Come on Latvians, join the party--we'll forgive you everything": ideological struggle during the national communist affair, summer 1959 / Geoffrey Swain
- "At first we missed our Latvia ...": attitudes towards Latvian state during the Soviet period / Irena Saleniece
- Latvians in exile and the idea of the Latvian state / Ieva Zake
- International reactions to the independence of the Baltic states: the French example, 1989-1991 / Una Bergmane
- "You are not the people": revisiting citizenship and geopolitics / Li Bennich-Bjorkman
- Post-Soviet Latvia: a consolidated democracy in the third decade of independence? / Geoffrey Pridham
- The Europeanisation of Latvia's public policy: the case of foreign aid policy, 2004-2010 / Peteris Timofejevs Henriksson
- Paradoxes of power: gender, work, and family in the new Europe / Daina S. Eglitis
- Reflections on the political economy of the Latvian state since 1991: the role of external goals: what to do now that externally defined goals have been realised? / Alfs Vanags
- The unbearable myth of convergence: episodes in the economic development of Latvia / Aldis Purs
- The roots of radicalism: persistent problems of class and ethnicity in Latvia's politics / Matthew Kott.