Lithuania 1940 : revolution from above / / Alfred Erich Senn.

• Superior document: On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics, 9
• Author: Ebooks Corporation.; Senn, Alfred Erich.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ebooks Corporation.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: On the boundary of two worlds ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In June 1940, as Nazi troops marched into Paris, the Soviet Red Army marched into Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia; seven weeks later, the USSR Supreme Soviet ratified the Soviet takeover of these states. For half a century, Soviet historians insisted that the three republics had voluntarily requested...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
• The Vilnius Complex
• A Trojan Horse?
• An Uncertain Winter
• The Soviet Invasion
• The Refugee
• Moscow’s Proconsul
• The People’s Government
• From Underground
• “The Moor Can Go”
• The Class Struggle
• The Elections
• Sovietization
• The Balance Sheet
• Notes
• Index.