The Baltic Revolution : Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
by Anatol Lieven
Listed under Eastern Europe
City
of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga
by Max Michelson
from University Press of Colorado
Endless
Miracles
by Jack Ratz, Felice Eisner
Book Description: Jack Ratz was a boy of fourteen when his hometown
in Latvia fell to the Nazi forces, only a few years after the Russians
had brought communism to the peaceful country. Despite the murder of his
mother and four brothers, Ratz tells of endless miracles he witnessed during
the ordeal: how he and his father survived the Nazis' attack on their ghetto,
how they were saved from a death camp by the Russian Red Army, and how
they were able to escape to the West to live long and wonderful lives.
Hardcover from Shengold Pub
Book Published: 1998 |
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Ethnopolitics
and Transition to Democracy : The Collapse of the USSR and Latvia
by Rasma Karklins
Gender
and Human Development in Latvia
by Astrida Neimanis
Genesis:
A Latvian Childhood
by Chaim Bermant, Chaim Berman
Hardcover from Robson Book Ltd
Book Published: December, 1999
The
Holocaust in Latvia, 1941-1944 : The Missing Center
by Andrew Ezergailis
Historical
Dictionary of Latvia
by Andrejs Plakans
Imagining
the Nation: History, Modernity, and Revolution in Latvia (Post Communist)
by Daina Stukuls Eglitis
Synopsis: Every epoch produces its own notions of social change, and
the post-Communist societies of East Europe are no exception. Imagining
the Nation explores the fate of contemporary Latvia, a small country with
a big story that is relevant for anyone wishing to better understand the
nature of post-Communist transitions. As Latvia and other former Soviet-bloc
countries seek to rebuild and transform their societies, what is the central
dynamic at work? In Imagining the Nation, Daina Stukuls Eglitis finds that
in virtually all aspects of life the guiding sentiment among Latvians has
been a desire for normality in the wake of the "deformations" that marked
the half century of Soviet rule. In seeking to return to normality, many
people look to the West for models; others look back in time to the period
of Latvian independence from 1918 to 1940 before the years of Soviet domination.
Ultimately, the changes in Latvia and other East European countries are
closely tied to a vital reimagining of the past, as the logic of progress
long associated with "revolution" is amalgamated with nostalgia for what
is gone. The radiant utopias of revolution give way to widely shared aspirations
for a return to the normal in politics, place names, private property,
and even gender relations. Eglitis draws upon published and unpublished
documents, campaign posters, maps, and monuments, as well as interviews
with Latvians from all walks of life. The resulting picture of life in
contemporary Latvia offers fresh perspective on a dilemma facing millions
throughout the post Communist world.
Hardcover from Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Book Published: October, 2002 |
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Journey
into Terror: Story of the Riga Ghetto
by Gertrude Schneider
Hardcover from Praeger Publishers
Book Published: 28 February, 2001
Latvia:
Independence Renewed (Westview Series on the Post-Soviet Republics)
by Janis J. Penikis, Andrejs Penikis, Alexander J. Motyl
Hardcover from Westview Press
Book Published: September, 2003
Latvia
in Transition
by Juris Dreifelds
Paperback from Cambridge University Press
Book Published: April, 1996
The
Latvians: A Short History (Studies of Nationalities)
by Andrejs Plakans
Paperback from Hoover Inst Pr
Book Published: August, 1995
Special Order
Immigrants
and Nationalists : Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation in Catalonia, the
Basque Country, Latvia, and Estonia
The
Murder of the Jews in Latvia, 1941-1945
by Bernhard Press, Laimdota Mazzarins (Translator)
Nationalism
and Democratic Transition: The Politics of Citizenship and Language in
Post-Soviet Latvia
by Mark A. Jubulis
Hardcover from Rowman & Littlefield (non NBN)
Book Published: 09 May, 2001
Special Order
Peeling Potatoes, Painting Pictures: Women Artists in Post-Soviet
Russia, Estonia, and Latvia. The First Decade
by Renee Baigell, Matthew Baigell
Listed under Women Artists
Phonology
of the Low German Deeds in the Oldest Registry at Riga, Latvia (Lm Series
: No 15)
by Charles Goetsch
Restructuring
the Baltic Economies: Disengaging Fifty Years of Integration with the USSR
by Raphael Shen
Hardcover from Praeger Publishers
Book Published: December, 1994
Special Order
Shtetl Finder Gazetter : Jewish Communities in the 19th and 20th
Centuries in the Pale of Settlement of Russia and Poland, and in Lithuania,
Latvia
by Chester G. Cohen
Listed under Jewish History
A
Taste of Latvia (Hippocrene International Cookbooks)
The
Testimony of Lives : Narrative and Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia
by Vieda Skultans
Book Description:
Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a refugee at the age of six months. In
1990, she returned for the first time. This remarkable book is both a personal
account of a homecoming and an anthropology of a people trying to come
to terms with its past and to face an uncertain future. Based on more than
100 interviews carried out in the wake of Latvian independence, it gives
voice to the stories that could not be told under Soviet rule--stories
of dispossession and exile and of ambiguous returns. At the same time it
unpicks the process of memory itself, showing how personal memory is shaped
by the traditional narratives of national history and culture.
Paperback: 256 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.58 x
9.14 x 6.14
Publisher: Routledge; (January 1998)
ISBN: 0415162904
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