Latvia - A Work in Progress? : 100 Years of State- and Nationbuilding.

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Author / Creator: Kott, Matthew.
Other Authors / Creators:Smith, David J.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Berlin : Ibidem Verlag, 2017.
Series:Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • State, Nation and Sovereignty in a Century of Uncertainty and Change: Turning Points and Continuities in Latvian Society and Polity
  • Death and Transfiguration: Reflections on World War I and the Birth of the Latvian State
  • Latvians as a Civic Nation-The Interwar Experiment
  • Why Remember Paul Schiemann?
  • The Return of the Gods? Authoritarian Culture and Neo-Paganism in Interwar Latvia, 1934-1940
  • "Come on Latvians, Join the Party-We'll Forgive You Everything": Ideological Struggle during the National Communist Affair, Summer 1959
  • "At First We Missed our Latvia...": Attitudes towards the Latvian State during the Soviet Period
  • Latvians in Exile and the Idea of the Latvian State
  • International Reactions to the Independence of the Baltic States: The French Example, 1989-1991
  • "You Are Not the People": Revisiting Citizenship and Geopolitics
  • Post-Soviet Latvia: A Consolidated Democracy in the Third Decade of Independence?
  • The Europeanisation of Latvia's Public Policy: The Case of Foreign Aid Policy, 2004-2010
  • Paradoxes of Power: Gender, Work and Family in the New Europe
  • Reflections on the Political Economy of the Latvian State since 1991: The Role of External Goals. What to Do Now that Externally Defined Goals have been Realised?
  • The Unbearable Myth of Convergence: Episodes in the Economic Development of Latvia
  • The Roots of Radicalism: Persistent Problems of Class and Ethnicity in Latvia's Politics
  • Index.