A native of Latvia, Lazar Fleishman has published and edited numerous works on Russian and East European history, literature and culture. He is Professor of Stanford University and has also taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton and other universities in the U.S. and Europe.   Amir Weiner teaches history at Stanford University. He is the author of Making Sense of War, Landscaping the Human Garden and numerous articles and edited volumes on the impact of World War II on the Soviet polity, the social history of WWII and Soviet frontier politics. His forthcoming book, The KGB: Ruthless Sword, Imperfect Shield, will be published by Yale University Press in 2019.

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• Introduction: War, Revolution, and Governance: The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth CenturyLazar Fleishman and Amir WeinerFrom Self-Defense to Revolution: Lithuanian Paramilitary Groups in 1918 and 1919Tomas BalkelisThe Latvian War of Independence 1918-1920 and the United StatesĒriks JēkabsonsNation-Building and Gender Issues in Inter-War Latvia: Representations and RealityIneta LipšaThe Political System and Ideology of Karlis Ulmanis’s Authoritarian Regime, 15 May 1934 – 17 June 1940Aivars StrangaThe Rise of the Radical Right, the Demise of Democracy, and the Advent of Authoritarianism in Interwar EstoniaAndres KasekampThe Czechoslovak Crisis and the Baltic States, 1938: A Fateful Year for the Baltic StatesMagnus IlmjärvGovernment, Society, and Political Crisis in Lithuania, 1938-1940Artūras SvarauskasLatvia, Nazi German Occupation, and the Western Allies, 1941–1945Uldis NeiburgsMemory of World War II and the Politics of Recognition: An Outline of the Post-1989 Mnemohistory of Estonian “Freedom-Fighters”Ene KõresaarDiscrediting the Diaspora: The KGB Search for War Criminals in the WestKristina BurinskaitėAfter Stalin: The Kremlin’s “New Nationalities Policy” and Estonia in 1953Tōnu TannbergDoubly Marginalized People: The Hidden Stories of Estonian Society (1940-1960)Aigi Rahi-TammWomen in the Soviet Latvian Nomenklatura (1940–1990)Daina BleiereThe Communist Party Second Secretary in the Soviet Republic as the Interpreter of Moscow’s Decisions: The Case of Nikolai Belukha in Soviet Latvia in 1963-1978Saulius Grybkauskas

A native of Latvia, Lazar Fleishman has published and edited numerous works on Russian and East European history, literature and culture. He is Professor of Stanford University and has also taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton and other universities in the U.S. and Europe.   Amir Weiner teaches history at Stanford University. He is the author of Making Sense of War, Landscaping the Human Garden and numerous articles and edited volumes on the impact of World War II on the Soviet polity, the social history of WWII and Soviet frontier politics. His forthcoming book, The KGB: Ruthless Sword, Imperfect Shield, will be published by Yale University Press in 2019.

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• Introduction: War, Revolution, and Governance: The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth CenturyLazar Fleishman and Amir WeinerFrom Self-Defense to Revolution: Lithuanian Paramilitary Groups in 1918 and 1919Tomas BalkelisThe Latvian War of Independence 1918-1920 and the United StatesĒriks JēkabsonsNation-Building and Gender Issues in Inter-War Latvia: Representations and RealityIneta LipšaThe Political System and Ideology of Karlis Ulmanis’s Authoritarian Regime, 15 May 1934 – 17 June 1940Aivars StrangaThe Rise of the Radical Right, the Demise of Democracy, and the Advent of Authoritarianism in Interwar EstoniaAndres KasekampThe Czechoslovak Crisis and the Baltic States, 1938: A Fateful Year for the Baltic StatesMagnus IlmjärvGovernment, Society, and Political Crisis in Lithuania, 1938-1940Artūras SvarauskasLatvia, Nazi German Occupation, and the Western Allies, 1941–1945Uldis NeiburgsMemory of World War II and the Politics of Recognition: An Outline of the Post-1989 Mnemohistory of Estonian “Freedom-Fighters”Ene KõresaarDiscrediting the Diaspora: The KGB Search for War Criminals in the WestKristina BurinskaitėAfter Stalin: The Kremlin’s “New Nationalities Policy” and Estonia in 1953Tōnu TannbergDoubly Marginalized People: The Hidden Stories of Estonian Society (1940-1960)Aigi Rahi-TammWomen in the Soviet Latvian Nomenklatura (1940–1990)Daina BleiereThe Communist Party Second Secretary in the Soviet Republic as the Interpreter of Moscow’s Decisions: The Case of Nikolai Belukha in Soviet Latvia in 1963-1978Saulius Grybkauskas

A native of Latvia, Lazar Fleishman has published and edited numerous works on Russian and East European history, literature and culture. He is Professor of Stanford University and has also taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton and other universities in the U.S. and Europe.   Amir Weiner teaches history at Stanford University. He is the author of Making Sense of War, Landscaping the Human Garden and numerous articles and edited volumes on the impact of World War II on the Soviet polity, the social history of WWII and Soviet frontier politics. His forthcoming book, The KGB: Ruthless Sword, Imperfect Shield, will be published by Yale University Press in 2019.

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• Introduction: War, Revolution, and Governance: The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth CenturyLazar Fleishman and Amir WeinerFrom Self-Defense to Revolution: Lithuanian Paramilitary Groups in 1918 and 1919Tomas BalkelisThe Latvian War of Independence 1918-1920 and the United StatesĒriks JēkabsonsNation-Building and Gender Issues in Inter-War Latvia: Representations and RealityIneta LipšaThe Political System and Ideology of Karlis Ulmanis’s Authoritarian Regime, 15 May 1934 – 17 June 1940Aivars StrangaThe Rise of the Radical Right, the Demise of Democracy, and the Advent of Authoritarianism in Interwar EstoniaAndres KasekampThe Czechoslovak Crisis and the Baltic States, 1938: A Fateful Year for the Baltic StatesMagnus IlmjärvGovernment, Society, and Political Crisis in Lithuania, 1938-1940Artūras SvarauskasLatvia, Nazi German Occupation, and the Western Allies, 1941–1945Uldis NeiburgsMemory of World War II and the Politics of Recognition: An Outline of the Post-1989 Mnemohistory of Estonian “Freedom-Fighters”Ene KõresaarDiscrediting the Diaspora: The KGB Search for War Criminals in the WestKristina BurinskaitėAfter Stalin: The Kremlin’s “New Nationalities Policy” and Estonia in 1953Tōnu TannbergDoubly Marginalized People: The Hidden Stories of Estonian Society (1940-1960)Aigi Rahi-TammWomen in the Soviet Latvian Nomenklatura (1940–1990)Daina BleiereThe Communist Party Second Secretary in the Soviet Republic as the Interpreter of Moscow’s Decisions: The Case of Nikolai Belukha in Soviet Latvia in 1963-1978Saulius Grybkauskas