A History of the Baltic States

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania experienced a sequence of foreign regimes, including Nazism and communism, before recovering their independence and joining the European Union. Clearly and accessibly written, this book is one of the first to provide a general overview of their histories from the stone age to the present using a comparative approach.

Andres Kasekamp is a Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Jeremy Black is a Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK.

List of Maps and Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
Europe's Last Pagans	p. 1
Early inhabitants	p. 1
Prehistoric societies	p. 5
The northern crusades	p. 11
Lithuania's Expansion and Medieval Livonia (1290-1560)	p. 20
Lithuania ascending	p. 20
Jogaila and Vytautas	p. 24
The Jagiellonians	p. 28
Feudal Livonia	p. 31
Towns, trade and the peasantry	p. 36
The Reformation and the disintegration of Livonia	p. 39
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Rise of Sweden and Russia (1561-1795)	p. 43
The Polish-Lithuanian union and the struggle for hegemony in Livonia	p. 43
Swedish dominance and the Great Northern War	p. 50
Russia's window to the West	p. 55
The decline and partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	p. 61
The Long Nineteenth Century under Tsarist Rule (1795-1917)	p. 68
Agrarian reforms in the Baltic provinces	p. 68
Lithuania within the Russian Empire	p. 72
National awakenings	p. 76
Russification and modernisation	p. 83
The Revolution of 1905 and World War I	p. 90
The Short Era of Independence (1917-1939)	p. 95
The Russian Revolution and German occupation	p. 95
The wars of independence	p. 100
From democracy to authoritarianism	p. 106
Economic, social and cultural progress	p. 113
In search of security	p. 119
Between Anvil and Hammer (1939-1953)	p. 124
Soviet annexation	p. 124
Nazi Ostland	p. 131
Fighting in foreign uniform	p. 136
Resistance, repression and collectivisation	p. 141
Soviet Rule (1953-1991)	p. 147
Thaw	p. 147
Stagnation	p. 151
The Singing Revolution	p. 160
Towards independence	p. 165
Return to the West (1991-2009)	p. 172
Building democracy	p. 172
Politics in the twenty-first century	p. 178
Economic reforms	p. 181
Societal transition	p. 184
Return to Europe	p. 188
Relations with Russia	p. 193
Notes	p. 198
Chronology	p. 220
Place Names	p. 225
Further Reading	p. 227
Index	p. 238
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