Ultimate freedom--no choice
Subtitle: the culture of authoritarianism in Latvia, 1934-1940
By: by Deniss Hanovs and Valdis Teraudkalns ; [translator, Laura Bleidere]
Contributors: Tēraudkalns, Valdis
Series: Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context -- volume 2
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789004243552; 9789004244641
Subjects: Politics and government; Politics and culture; Authoritarianism; Political culture; History
Work titles: Laiks, telpa, vadonis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter one. The beginning : how was the coup presented back then?; title: Inter-war Latvia : prehistory of the coup, its context; title: Why the coup is not a coup, but salvation?; title: Ulmanis in foreign media : the Times; title: Chapter two. Genesis of a political myth : an official turns into Vadonis; title: Chapter three. Staging Atdzimšanas Dziesma : technologies of authoritarianism cultural policy; title: How does one stage the principle of authoritarianism? staging of a mass performance as a political program; title: "Atdzimšanas Dziesma will invite every Latvian to serve his nation and country by obeying Vadonis" : what is the staging going to say?; title: "Atdzimšanas Dziesma depicts the fate of the Latvian people : staging as a liturgy of authoritarianism, Vadonis as a priest and actor; title: Chapter four. "Another land" : Latgale region in the discourse of Ulmanis' authoritarian regime on the unity of the nation; title: Political performance as a staging of unanimity; title: Latgale : the symbolic stepchild and bride; title: Latgalians and ethnic unity; title: Latgalians and ethnic diversity : the other in the new political culture; title: Answers of Latgale's media; title: The education law and the technology of the melting pot; title: Daugavpils Vienības Nams : a building as a political message; title: Chapter five. The leader, the enemy, war and celebration : authoritarianism practices compared : Stalin and Ulmanis in Latvia's authoritarian culture; title: USSR; title: the land of workers and violence : a dual perception; title: Cultural practices of European dictatorships in the 30s; title: Stalin and Ulmanis : a functional comparison of leaders; title: The enemy : communism and the war of civilizations; title: Moscow trials; title: the globalized political show of the 30s; title: Chapter six. Date and place : a celebration of authoritarianism in Rēzekne and Riga; title: "The harvest booster" : K. Ulmanis as a hero of cyclical time in Svēta Zeme spectacle; title: 18 November as a continuation of 15 May : the course of celebration on 18 November 1938; title: Chapter seven. "New Riga" : the city as an instrument of authoritarian ideology; title: Aesthetization of Ulmanis' ideology : key tendencies and international context; title: Ulman Riga; title: The Uzvaras laukums : a spatial self-reference; title: Chapter eight. Authoritarianism and the Church : attempts to develop Latvian Christianity in 1920s and 1930s; title: The relationship policy between the Church and the state under Ulmanis' regime; title: The Church : in supranational content and national form; title: Ideas expressed by the radical wing of Latvianizers of the Church; title: Conclusion.