Antanas Smetona and his Lithuania : : from the national liberation movement to an authoritarian regime (1893-1940) / / by Alfonsas Eidintas ; translated and edited by Alfred Erich Senn.
This biographical overview of the life of Antanas Smetona (1874-1944), his importance in the Lithuanian national movement, his central role in the emergence of modern Lithuania (1918-1920), and the development of the various groups of nationalists in Lithuania, offers a picture of the creation of a...
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Superior document: | On the Boundary of Two Worlds : Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, Volume 42 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ; : Brill :, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Rodopi,, 2015. ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | On the boundary of two worlds ;
Volume 42. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (506 p.) |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- The Pupil Antanas Smetona and the Teacher Jonas Jablonskis
- With Father Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas at Viltis
- Petras Klimas – Between Smetona and Steponas Kairys
- Smetona and the Lithuanian Monarchists
- Smetona’s Conflict with Juozas Gabrys-Paršaitis
- Baron Stasys Šilingas and the President
- “The Man of Greatest Compromise” – Ernestas Galvanauskas and Smetona
- Jonas Lapenas and the Tautininkai: Why the lts did not Become a Party
- Antanas Smetona and Foreign Diplomats
- Smetona and Izidorius Tamošaitis: The Justification of the Coup
- His Wife Sofija Chodakauskaite-Smetoniene
- The Smetona-Voldemaras Tandem
- The Split with Voldemaras
- Smetona’s Daily Routine
- The Ideologist Izidorius Tamošaitis
- Tumas-Vaižgantas, the Priests, and the Church
- The Creation of National Culture, Vincas Kreve and the President
- Lithuania’s Poles and Smetona, “King of the Jews”
- Smetona, Adolf Hitler, and the Nazis
- Smetona’s In-Laws: Juozas Tubelis and Jadvyga Chodakauskaite
- A Quick Succession of Prime Ministers in Crisis
- The Intriguer: Stasys Raštikis, the Army and the President
- Antanas Merkys, Broken and Apathetic
- With General Musteikis and into the Diplomatic “Swamp”
- Povilas Žadeikis and Smetona in America
- The Fates of Smetona’s Family and Friends
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index.