`a welcome addition to the scholarship on the republics and their road to independence. Hiden and Salmon, historians by trade, provide an excellent treatment of Baltic history...and offer important clues to the origins of nationalism among each of the three ethnic groups.'International Affairs

• Introduction; Part 1 Awakening; Chapter 1 Against the Odds; Chapter 2 War, Revolution and Independence; Part 2 States of Europe 1918–40; Chapter 3 Building New States; Chapter 4 The Diplomacy of Survival; Chapter 5 The Economics of Survival; Chapter 6 Lives of the Hunted; Part 3 Eclipse 1940–85; Chapter 7 Casualties of War; Chapter 8 Soviet Winter; Part 4 Reawakening; Chapter 9 Baltic Spring; Chapter 10 Planning to Leave; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 11 Independence and After (March 1994);

`a welcome addition to the scholarship on the republics and their road to independence. Hiden and Salmon, historians by trade, provide an excellent treatment of Baltic history...and offer important clues to the origins of nationalism among each of the three ethnic groups.'International Affairs

• Introduction; Part 1 Awakening; Chapter 1 Against the Odds; Chapter 2 War, Revolution and Independence; Part 2 States of Europe 1918–40; Chapter 3 Building New States; Chapter 4 The Diplomacy of Survival; Chapter 5 The Economics of Survival; Chapter 6 Lives of the Hunted; Part 3 Eclipse 1940–85; Chapter 7 Casualties of War; Chapter 8 Soviet Winter; Part 4 Reawakening; Chapter 9 Baltic Spring; Chapter 10 Planning to Leave; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 11 Independence and After (March 1994);

`a welcome addition to the scholarship on the republics and their road to independence. Hiden and Salmon, historians by trade, provide an excellent treatment of Baltic history...and offer important clues to the origins of nationalism among each of the three ethnic groups.'International Affairs

• Introduction; Part 1 Awakening; Chapter 1 Against the Odds; Chapter 2 War, Revolution and Independence; Part 2 States of Europe 1918–40; Chapter 3 Building New States; Chapter 4 The Diplomacy of Survival; Chapter 5 The Economics of Survival; Chapter 6 Lives of the Hunted; Part 3 Eclipse 1940–85; Chapter 7 Casualties of War; Chapter 8 Soviet Winter; Part 4 Reawakening; Chapter 9 Baltic Spring; Chapter 10 Planning to Leave; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 11 Independence and After (March 1994);