Baltic independence and Russian Empire
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Baltic independence and Russian Empire
Macmillan, 1991
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Baltic republics occupy a tiny niche on the map of Europe, but their future has global significance. Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians have unleashed a "singing revolution" against the Russian empire to re-establish the independent statehood suppressed in 1940. Concerned to uphold the Soviet system, President Gorbachev's Kremlin has responded with a mixture of wishful thinking and conciliation, repression and legalistic delay. The West has also vacillated - between support in principal for national self-determination and resignation to the imperatives of power politics. This book analyzes these developments against the historical background of changing East-West relations and the upheavals triggered by perestroika and glasnost. The author proposes policies to create values for all concerned.
Table of Contents
Glossary - Introduction and Acknowledgements - Independence v Empire: How and Why? - The Baltic: A Bridge between West and East - Winning Independence - From Independence to Stalinism - Gorbachev's Inheritance: Thaw and Stagnation - Perestroika and Glasnost' in the Baltic - The Quest for National Self-Determination - Non-Violent Liberation: 'Singing Revolutions' - Hands Across the Baltic, the USSR, the World - 'Internationals': Resist or Join Baltic Independence? - Baltic Nationalism and Communism: Kto Kovo? - The Center does not hold: No Soviet Melting Pot - Kremlin Dilemma: Concessions or Crackdown? - Whither the Russian Empire? Models for Change - Implications for the West: How to Join Idealism with Realism? - The Hard Road to Freedom - Maps - Index
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