From recognition to restoration
| Titel: | From recognition to restoration : Latvia's history as a nation-state / ed. and introd. by David J. Smith ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010 |
| Umfang: | 174 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
On the boundary of two worlds ; 25 |
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| ISBN: | 9042030984 ; 9789042030985 |
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Taking its cue from the 90th anniversary commemorations of November 2008, this work explores the relationship between state and nationhood during the three phases to date in Latvia¿s existence as a territorial entity: the sovereign statehood of 1918-1940; the Soviet and Nazi occupations of 1940-1944 and the ensuing half-century within the USSR; and the post-1991 period, which has seen the restoration of independence on the basis of legal continuity from the inter-war period and ¿ latterly ¿ accession to the European Union. The aim in relation to all three eras is to go beyond the often essentialising contours of Cold War and post-Cold War debates and reveal the underlying complexities and ambiguities of political and social development.
