What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people's conventional values is losing its effective p…
"The Quality of Divided Democracies is about how democracy works, or fails to work, in ethno-culturally divided societies. It advances a new theoretical approach to assessing quality of democracy in divided societies, and puts it into practice with the focused comparison of two …
This overview of the reemerging states portrays the Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians as they see themselves--through a historical lens. The approach in each of the topical chapters is to generalize what is common among the three states and then to focus on each country in tu…
Discusses the traditions, culture, religion, media, literature, and arts of the Baltic States.
With the Soviet reoccupation after World War II, Estonians faced a choice of submitting to Communist puppets or trying to survive in the traditional refuge of their forests while waiting for help from the West which never came. Those who chose the second course, Estonia's "Fores…
With the Soviet reoccupation after World War II, Estonians faced a choice of submitting to Communist puppets or trying to survive in the traditional refuge of their forests while waiting for help from the West which never came. Those who chose the second course, Estonia's "Fores…
Die baltischen Länder und Europa in der frühen Neuzeit
by Dybas, Boguslaw, Laur, Mati, Oberländer, Erwin, Borisovna Bessudnova, Marina, Erpenbeck, Dirk-Gerd, Fülberth, Andreas, Hartmann, Stefan, Keller, Volker, Klöker, Volker, Kõiv, Lea, Küng, Enn, Leimus, Ivar, Maasing, Madis, Selart, Anti, Straube, Gvido, Zacharov, Viktor Nikolaevic
fromQuellen und Studien zur baltischen Geschichte
This book interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as members of a national community. In line with other sc…
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
by McNaughtan, Hugh, Dragicevich, Peter, Ragozin, Leonid
fromLonely Planet
This guide covers the Baltic States from the northernmost point of Estonia to the southern tip of Lithuania, an area less than the size of England