Dissent and nationalism in the Soviet Baltic
By: a Project Air Force report prepared for the United States Air Force [by] Alexander R. Alexiev.
Contributors: Rand Corporation.
Publisher: Rand
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Lithuania.; Dissenters -- Baltic States.; Nationalism -- Baltic States.; Baltic States -- Politics and government.; Soviet Union -- Relations -- Baltic States.; Baltic States -- Relations -- Soviet Union.; Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations.
Description: Examines the evolution of Baltic dissent and nationalism in the 1970s and early 1980s, focusing on their determinants, significance, and potential for generating political instability in this important region of the Soviet Union. This is the region most directly affected by developments in Eastern Europe, and in turn it is the one most likely to affect Soviet policies in the area. The report focuses on Soviet policies and practices that are perceived as generating dissent and nationalist unrest in the Baltic republics and analyzes the scope and nature of, and constraints on, political and religious dissent there. Research for this study has included an extensive review of Western and Soviet literature and in-depth interviews with a number of recent emigres from the Baltic. 47 pp. Bibliog.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 43-47.
Prepared under contract F49620-82-C-0018.
"R-3061-AF."
"September 1983."