Defining Latvia : : Recent Explorations in History, Culture, and Politics / / ed. by Siobhán Hearne, Matthew Kott, Michael Loader.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Auers, Daunis,; Bleiere, Daina,; Bolin, Per,; Douglas, Christina,; Gibson, Catherine,; Hearne, Siobhán,; Kott, Matthew,; Loader, Michael,; Merritt, Harry C.,; Oppermann, Paula,; Vikulina, Ekaterina,; Ījabs, Ivars,
• HerausgeberIn: Hearne, Siobhán,; Kott, Matthew,; Loader, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

In just over a century, Latvia has transitioned from imperial periphery to nation-state, then Soviet republic, and finally following the collapse of the Soviet Union to an independent republic. Defining Latvia brings together the latest research on the multiple social, political, and cultural contex...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction. Latvia and Latvian Identity in Historical Perspective
• 1. Mapping Latwija. Matīss Siliņš and Latvian Cartographic Publishing in the 1890s
• 2. The Sokolowski. Affair Testing the Limits of Cultural Autonomy in Interwar Latvia
• 3. More than a Means to an End. Pērkonkrusts’s Antisemitism and Attacks on Democracy, 1932–1934
• 4. “My Home and My Family Are Now Our Regiment”. National Belonging and Familial Feelings in Latvian Units during World War II
• 5. The Economic Program of the Latvian National Communists – Myth or Reality?
• 6. Latvia Goes Rogue. Language Politics and Khrushchev’s 1958 Soviet Education Reform
• 7. Latvian Photography of the 1960s between Art and Censorship
• 8. Onwards and Upwards! Mainstreaming Radical Right Populism in Contemporary Latvia
• Glossary of Archives
• About the Contributors
• Index