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Author : Andrejs Plakans
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Latvia
ISBN : 0817993037
This postperestroika historical narrative should contribute significantly to assessing the likelihood of Latvia's survival as an independent republic."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Daina Bleiere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Latvia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127400138
Author : Mara Kalnins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849046060
The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinctive and remarkably robust culture and language, and which eventually developed into a loose federation of tribal kingdoms that stretched from the shores of the Baltic sea to the upper Dniepr river. But these small independent kingdoms were unable to resist the later invasion of the Teutonic Knights in 1201, an invasion that initiated nearly eight hundred years of helotry for the Latvians in their own domains. In the centuries of domination by successive European powers that followed, the inhabitants nonetheless preserved a powerful sense of identity, fostered by their ancient language, oral literature, songs and customs. These in turn informed and gave impetus to the rise of national consciousness in the nineteenth century and the political activities of the twentieth which brought the modern nation-state of Latvia into being. This book traces the genesis and growth of that nation, its endurance over centuries of conquest and oppression, the process by which it achieved its independence, and its status as a member of the European community in the twenty-first century.
Author : Alfreds Bilmanis
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024471057
Author : Alfrēds Bīlmanis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:186358053
Author : Arnolds Spekke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Latvia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130530822
Author : Aldis Purs,Andrejs Plakans
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538102213
Latvia is located on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. After a brief period of independence between the two World Wars, Latvia was annexed by the USSR in 1940. It reestablished its independence in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Although the last Russian troops left in 1994. Latvia continues to revamp its economy for eventual integration into various Western European political and economic institutions. Since May 2004 Latvia is a member of the European Union. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Latvia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Latvia.
Author : Valdis O. Lumans
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0823226271
Valdis Lumans provides an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War. Struggling against both Germany and the Soviet Union, Latvia emerged as an independent nation state after the First World War. In 1940, the Soviets occupied neutral Latvia, deporting or executing more than 30,000 Latvians before the Nazis invaded in 1941 and installed a puppet regime. The Red Army expelled the Germans in 1944 and reincorporated Latvia as a Soviet Republic. By the end of the war, an estimated 180,000 Latvians fled to the West. The Soviets would deport at least another 100,000. Drawing on a wide range of sources--many brought together here for the first time--Lumans synthesizes political, military, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history. He moves carefully through traditional sources, many of them partisan, to scholarship emerging since the end of the Cold War, to confront such issues as political loyalties, military collaboration, resistance, capitulation, the Soviet occupation, anti-Semitism, and the Latvian role in the Holocaust.
Author : Vilis Inde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798554833120
This is the first stop in learning about Latvian people and their culture and history. The Latvian people survived centuries of oppression under foreign rule, yet gained independence in 1918 and again in 1990. This history focuses on factors that played a role in maintaining the language and culture through difficult circumstances. The book also includes a brief section of one of Latvia's spiritual and political leaders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rainis. He inspired people to act in the quest for freedom and independence.
Author : Guntars Ābols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Latvia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118034714
Author : Andrejs Plakans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521833721
An integrated history of three Baltic peoples - Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians - from their origins as tribal societies to separate nations.
Author : Uzo Marvin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Latvia
ISBN : 1530454158
Latvia history, and early history, who are Latvia people, where are they from, the book on Latvia also provides you information on Latvia culture, Latvia economy, Latvia tourism, Latvia government and ruling systemLatvians have resided in their present geographical area for more than 2,000 years. Their closest ethnic relatives are the ancient Prussians, the Galinds, the Jatvings, and the Lithuanians. Only the Lithuanians have avoided extinction. All the other peoples were conquered or assimilated by their neighbors, demonstrating one of the realities of history--the ebb and flow of the creation and disappearance of nations. This aspect of history has been taken to heart by Latvians, who regularly use their experience of extinction as a tocsin of potential danger to the survival of their own group. Ironically, Latvians themselves have been in the position of having assimilated another group. The first settlers in the territory of Latvia were Livonians, or "Libiesi." Whereas the Latvians originated from the Indo-European family, the Livonians were akin to the Estonians and the Finns and formed a part of the Finno-Ugric complex of nations. The Livonians were once heavily concentrated in the northern part of Latvia's present-day provinces of Kurzeme and Vidzeme, but today only about 100 individuals retain their ancient language. Livonians have also contributed to the development of a prominent Latvian dialect
Author : Andres Kasekamp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307285
In this key textbook, Andres Kasekamp masterfully traces the development of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, from the northern crusades against Europe's last pagans and Lithuania's rise to become one of medieval Europe's largest states, to their incorporation into the Russian Empire and the creation of their modern national identities. Employing a comparative approach, a particular emphasis is placed upon the last one hundred years, during which the Baltic states achieved independence, endured occupation by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and transformed themselves into members of the European Union. This is an essential textbook for undergraduate students taking modules on Eastern or Central European History, Communism and Post-Communism, the Soviet Union, or Baltic Culture and Politics. Engaging and accessible, this is also an ideal introduction to the Baltic States for general readers.
Author : Raimonds Cerūzis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Latvia
ISBN : 9984736334
Author : Georg von Rauch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520026004
"Georg von Rauch (1904 - 1991) was a Baltic German historian specializing in Russia and the Baltic states. Rauch was born in Pskov, the son of Kornelius von Rauch, who was serving in the Russian army; in 1911 the family moved to Sangaste in southern Estonia, then part of the Russian Empire. Rauch graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in history in 1927, leaving for Germany in 1939. He joined the staff of the University of Marburg, where he taught Russian history, in 1946, becoming a professor in 1953. In 1958 he accepted an offer from the University of Kiel, where he became head of the Institute on East European History. His pioneering history of the Soviet Union was translated into other languages and became a standard textbook. His son was the anarchist Georg von Rauch, killed by the police in 1971."--Wikipedia.