| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 246 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Postcommunist states and nations
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Postcommunist states and nations.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Chronology; Preface; Introduction; Map of Lithuania; Section I: Revival and Repression 1914-1985; 1 Independent Lithuania between the Wars; 2 Sovietization 1940-1985; Section II: Independence and the Politics of Transition1985-1999; 3 The Achievement of Independence 1985-1991; 4 Government and Politics in Independent Lithuania; 5 The Lithuanian Economy after Independence; 6 Lithuania's Foreign and National Security Policy; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Lithuania restored her independence, after half a century of Soviet occupation, in the immediate aftermath of the failed Moscow coup in August 1991. As the multi-national Soviet state disintegrated, Lithuania evolved, without war or violence, from a communist state and a command economy to a liberal democracy, a free market, and a society guaranteeing human and minority rights. Lithuania therefore offers a notable example of peaceful transition, all the more impressive in the light of the bloody conflict elsewhere in the former Soviet Union of Yugoslavia, where the aspirations to independence. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lithuania -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation)
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Lithuania. |
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International relations. |
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Russia (Federation) |
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Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Lithuania.
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Lithuania -- History -- 1991-
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1991- |
| Subject |
Lithuania -- Politics and government -- 1991-
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1991 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lane, A.T. Lithuania. London : Routledge, 2001 0415267315 (OCoLC)47777132 |
| ISBN |
020340274X (electronic book) |
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9780203402740 (electronic book) |
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9058231135 |
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9789058231130 |
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