Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads
Aili Aarelaid-Tart, "Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads "
English | ISBN: 1138019976 | 2014 | 220 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1138019976 | 2014 | 220 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy. The twentieth century history of the Baltic countries has often been deeply tragic. Lying on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, these rather small but strategically well located territories have historically found themselves in the middle of many power struggles between larger states, empires and other power-holders: the Teutonic Knights, Swedish kings, Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union. Today, they are once again forced to stand up to the Russian Federation.
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