Latvia: The Challenges of Change (Postcommunist States and Nations)

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The past one hundred years have been a very trying time for Latvia, complete with success, tragedy, and still unrealized promise. Within the course of a generation, the country experienced revolutions, wars and independent statehood, and then the slide into authoritarianism. World War II brought new occupations. The tragedies were staggering: holocaust, executions, and an exodus of refugees. Soviet consolidation bred deportations, forced collectivization and partisan warfare. Almost fifty years later, Latvia regained its independence and emerged from decades of disastrous Soviet rule.
This book comprehensively surveys Latvia's recent past and prospects for the new millennium, placing contemporary events in historical perspective. The authors address the evolution of the country from the movement against Soviet rule to the dilemmas of contemporary politics: party formation, the problem of corruption, the quest for the future and a regional and international role, the struggle to develop a civil society, the issue of ethnic relations and the recurring tendency towards statist solutions. Proper attention is also given to economic developments.

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Very concise conversation with two authors, ending with the phrase post-independence hangover. Very quick review of history with references if you really want to know more, and interesting piece of politics and history of the 50 years of Soviet domination, but a reminder that there were really only 30 years of independence, sort of a blink of an eye within a millenium. It has a realistic view of what is and wheter it is good or bad depends on what you are comparing it to. When you read it keep your biases in perspective to what you are reading

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