Antanas Smetona and his Lithuania : : from the national liberation movement to an authoritarian regime (1893-1940) /

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.

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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
VerfasserIn:
Eidintas, A.
TeilnehmendeR:
Senn, Erich,
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.

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