Author: Jolanta AnskaitienéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lithuanian Parliamentary Mirror
Author: Jolanta AnskaitienéParliamentary Lithuanian Mirror
Author: Parliamentary Lithuanian Mirror
Author: Lithuanian Papers
Author: Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
Author: Patrick BakerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111862
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, one of the most important cultural movements in Western history. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker explores the meaning that Italian Renaissance humanism had for an essential but neglected group: the humanists themselves.
Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications 2000
Author: Gale GroupPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783892108
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania: Country Studies
Author: Walter IwaskiwPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781490435572
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. This volume is about Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Lithuania
Author: V. Stanley VardysPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429967713
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book explores Lithuania's pagan ancestry and epochal struggles with Germanic and Russian states and examines Lithuania's struggle with the legacy of Soviet rule as it strives to establish democracy and economic prosperity.
Democracy in a Russian Mirror
Author: Adam PrzeworskiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316240282
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
What can we learn about democracy from the experience of post-Soviet Russia? What can we learn about the prospects for democracy in Russia from the experience of 'really existing democracies'? Must some 'pre-requisites', cultural or material, be fulfilled for democracy to become possible? This book examines the current state of Russia and the prospects for democracy, posing several challenges to our understanding of democracy. Thirteen contributors expand the debate over these questions, offering a variety of insights, interpretations, and conclusions vital to understanding the conditions of emergence and survival of successful democracies.
The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania
Author: Violeta DavoliūtėPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134693516
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the horrors of World War II a special ferocity. Moreover, the fighting continued after 1945 with the anti-Soviet insurrection, crushed through mass deportations and forced collectivization in 1948-1951. At no point, however, did the process of national consolidation take a pause, making Lithuania an improbably representative case study of successful nation-building in this troubled region. As postwar reconstruction gained pace, ethnic Lithuanians from the countryside – the only community to remain after the war in significant numbers – were mobilized to work in the cities. They streamed into factory and university alike, creating a modern urban society, with new elites who had a surprising degree of freedom to promote national culture. This book describes how the national cultural elites constructed a Soviet Lithuanian identity against a backdrop of forced modernization in the fifties and sixties, and how they subsequently took it apart by evoking the memory of traumatic displacement in the seventies and eighties, later emerging as prominent leaders of the popular movement against Soviet rule.