The Latvians: A Short HistoryHoover Press, 1995 - 257 pages "Particular emphasis is given to the period between the Latvian "national awakening" of 1816-1819 and the emergence of an independent Latvia in 1918. From this point forward, the book extensively chronicles an evolving Latvian state structure, provides an appendix that summarizes all changes and important officeholders, and explains the current system of political parties. |
Table des matières
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Invasion Conquest and the Creation of Livonia | 14 |
Politics Economics and Religion in the Sixteenth Century | 30 |
The Trifurcated Littoral in the Seventeenth Century | 44 |
The Baltic Littoral in the Russian Empire | 60 |
A Century of Reforms | 80 |
The Latvian Nation Acquires a State | 112 |
The Loss of Independence | 141 |
The Reemergence of an Independent Latvia | 167 |
Continuities and Discontinuities | 184 |
Appendix | 199 |
Notes | 205 |
Bibliography | 229 |
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activists Agrarian Union army August Balodis Baltic area Baltic German Baltic provinces Balts became began Bilmanis Bolshevik church continued Courland Couronians cultural Daugava Drīzulis duchy eastern Baltic littoral economic elected elites estates Estonian farmstead History of Latvia independence Inflanty institutions interwar Jānis Kārlis Ulmanis labor land landholders language large numbers Latgale Latvian government Latvian language Latvian national Latvian population Latvian tauta Latvian territories Latvian-language Latviešu Latvijas PSR vēsture Latvijas vēsture Latvju enciklopēdija leaders Lettgallia līdz Lithuanian Livland Livonian Order Livs Lutheran medieval military minister Moscow nationalist nobility non-Germans non-Latvians organizations peasantry peasants percent period persons Plakans Polish Polish-Lithuanian political Popular Front president proportion reform remained republic Riga rural Russian Saeima Saint Petersburg second half Selonians Semigallians serfdom serfs seventeenth century sixteenth century Šmits Soviet Latvian Soviet Union Spekke Stockholm Supreme Council Švābe Swedish tion Ulmanis's University of Latvia urban USSR vassals Western Zinātne Zvaigzne