Title American Latvians : politics of a refugee community / Ieva Zake

Published New Brunswick : Transaction, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 215 pages) : illustrations Contents Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- Into Exile -- The Old Latvians -- Relations with the Post-World War II �migrés -- The Flight -- The DPs -- Resettlement Process -- Starting a New Life -- American Latvian Association, the World Federation of Free Latvians and Daugavas Vanagi -- Notes -- American Latvians as Ethnic Anticommunists -- Latvian Anticommunist Doctrine -- Three Generations of American Latvians -- Successes and Failures -- Notes -- Ghosts from the Past -- Latvians and the Holocaust Alleged Latvian War Criminals in the NewsAttempts to Silence the Debate -- Notes -- Surviving the Soviet Pressure -- What Were the “Cultural Contacts�? -- The Impact of Cultural Contacts -- Notes -- The End of Exile -- Independence movements in Latvia and the Response of American Latvians -- Impossible Unification -- Repatriation�Policies and Obstacles -- Repatriates� Role in the New State -- Repatriation as a Unique Type of Immigration: Personal Experiences of the Repatriates -- What�s Next? -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Contradictory Influences Internal ConflictsHistorical Debates and Collective Memory -- Repatriation -- The End of an Era? -- Notes -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Latvian Americans -- Politics and government Latvians -- United States -- Politics and government Refugees -- Political activity -- United States Political activists -- United States -- History Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History Latvian Americans -- Social conditions Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions Community life -- United States -- History HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Refugees -- Social conditions Refugees -- Political activity Political activists Latvians -- Politics and government International relations Community life Anti-communist movements SUBJECT Latvia -- Relations -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Relations -- Latvia Subject United States Soviet Union Latvia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781412843430 141284343X

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