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almafu_9961326477502883
Format:
1 online resource (560 p.) :
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4 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN:
9780823295999
Series Statement:
World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
Content:
Valdis Lumans provides an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War. Struggling against both Germany and the Soviet Union, Latvia emerged as an independent nation state after the First World War. In 1940, the Soviets occupied neutral Latvia, deporting or executing more than 30,000 Latvians before the Nazis invaded in 1941 and installed a puppet regime. The Red Army expelled the Germans in 1944 and reincorporated Latvia as a Soviet Republic. By the end of the war, an estimated 180,000 Latvians fled to the West. The Soviets would deport at least another 100,000.Drawing on a wide range of sources—many brought together here for the first time—Lumans synthesizes political, military, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history. He moves carefully through traditional sources, many of them partisan, to scholarship emerging since the end of the Cold War, to confront such issues as political loyalties, military collaboration, resistance, capitulation, the Soviet occupation, anti-Semitism, and the Latvian role in the Holocaust.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Foreword --
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Maps --
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Introduction --
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1 Prewar Latvia --
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2 Latvia's Road to war --
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3 Latvia and the Outbreak of war --
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4 The soviet Occupation and Annexation --
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5 Sovietizing Latvia: The Year of Terror --
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6 The German Invasion and occupation of Latvia --
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7 Latvia and the Ostland --
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8 Latvia and the Holocaust --
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9 The Latvian Legion --
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10 Latvians at the Front --
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11 German Retreat and soviet Return --
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Epilogue --
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Notes --
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Bibliographic Essay --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823226276
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780823295999
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295999
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823295999
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295999
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823295999
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