Latvia: The Challenges of Change

by Aldis Purs and Artis Pabriks

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415267307
• ISBN13: 9780415267304
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"