| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 246 pages) |
| Series |
Postcommunist states and nations |
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Postcommunist states and nations.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Lithuania -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation)
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Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Lithuania
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Lithuania -- History -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005955
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Lithuania -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004334
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| Subject |
Lithuania
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Russia (Federation)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
020340274X |
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9780203402740 |
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0415267315 |
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9780415267311 |
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