A History of the Baltic States (Palgrave Essential Histories)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 17, 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780230019409
Subjects: History -- Europe; History -- Russia; History -- World
Table of contents: title: Europe's last pagans. Early inhabitants -- Prehistoric societies -- The northern crusades -- Lithuania's expansion and Medieval Livonia (1290-1560). Lithuania ascending -- Jogaila and Vytautas -- The Jagiellonians -- Feudal Livonia -- Towns, trade and the peasantry -- The Reformation and the disintegration of Livonia -- The Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth and the rise of Sweden and Russia (1561-1795). The Polish-Lithuanian union and the struggle for hegemony in Livonia -- Swedish dominance and the Great Northern War -- Russia's window to the West -- The decline and partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- The Long Nineteenth Century under tsarist rule (1795-1917). Agrarian reforms in the Baltic provinces -- Lithuania within the Russian Empire -- National awakenings -- Russification and modernization -- The Revolution of 1905 and World War I -- The short era of independence (1917-1939). The Russian Revolution and German occupation -- The wars of independence -- From democracy to authoritarianism -- Economic, social and cultural progress -- In search of security -- Between anvil and hammer (1939-1953). Soviet annexation -- Nazi Ostland -- Fighting in foreign uniform -- Resistance, repression and collectivization -- Soviet rule (1953-1991). Thaw -- Stagnation -- The Singing Revolution -- Towards independence -- Return to the West (1991-2009). Building democracy -- Politics in the twenty-first Century -- Economic reforms -- Societal transition -- Return to Europe -- Relations with Russia -- Notes -- Chronology -- Place names.