Lithuania: stepping westward
by Lane, A. T.
Lithuania restored her independence, after half a century of Soviet occupation, in the immediate aftermath of the failed Moscow coup in August 1991. As the multi-national Soviet state disintegrated, Lithuania evolved, without war or violence, from a communist state and a command economy to a liberal democracy, a free market, and a society guaranteeing human and minority rights. Lithuania therefore offers a notable example of peaceful transition, all the more impressive in the light of the blood…
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Lithuania restored her independence, after half a century of Soviet occupation, in the immediate aftermath of the failed Moscow coup in August 1991. As the multi-national Soviet state disintegrated, Lithuania evolved, without war or violence, from a communist state and a command economy to a liberal democracy, a free market, and a society guaranteeing human and minority rights. Lithuania therefore offers a notable example of peaceful transition, all the more impressive in the light of the bloody conflict elsewhere in the former Soviet Union of Yugoslavia, where the aspirations to independence.
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- Publication Date:©2001
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- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2001
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Originally published 2001 by Routledge.
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- Description:1 online resource (287 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203402740, 020340274X
- oclc:ocn999706261
- LC Classification:DK505.54
- Dewey Decimal:327.4793047
Table of Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Chronology; Preface; Introduction; Map of Lithuania; Section I: Revival and Repression 1914-1985; 1 Independent Lithuania between the Wars; 2 Sovietization 1940-1985; Section II: Independence and the Politics of Transition1985-1999; 3 The Achievement of Independence 1985-1991; 4 Government and Politics in Independent Lithuania; 5 The Lithuanian Economy after Independence; 6 Lithuania's Foreign and National Security Policy; Bibliography; Index
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