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A Concise History of the Baltic States

by Andrejs Plakans

Three nations in a shared European crossroads

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Three nations in a shared European crossroads

Andrejs Plakans brings Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian histories into a single regional account, tracing their development from ninth-century tribal beginnings to the restoration of sovereignty after 1991. The survey emphasizes the forces that shaped the region, including its strategic location and successive periods of rule by Baltic German landholders, Polish elites, and Russian and Soviet administrators. It also highlights the persistence of distinct national identities and languages across an ethnically diverse area. The twentieth century receives particular attention, giving the book’s broad historical arc a strong focus on the events and changes that preceded the states’ renewed independence.

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  • Readers seeking an integrated history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
  • Readers interested in the Baltic region’s twentieth-century history and the restoration of sovereignty after 1991.
  • Readers exploring how language, identity, and successive systems of rule shaped European nations.

Themes

Baltic history and regional connectionsNational identity and languagePolitical rule and sovereigntyThe twentieth-century Baltic experience

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Book overview

The Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments of the various Baltic states. With this wide-ranging survey, Andrejs Plakans presents the first integrated history of three Baltic peoples - Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians - and draws out the common threads to show how it has been shaped by their location in a strategically desirable corner of Europe. Subordinated in turn by Baltic German landholders, the Polish nobility and gentry, and then by Russian and Soviet administrators, the three nations have nevertheless kept a their distinctive identities - significantly retaining three separate languages in an ethnically diverse region. The book traces the countries' evolution from their ninth-century tribal beginnings to their present status as three thriving and separate nation states, focusing particularly on the region's complex twentieth-century history, which culminated in the eventual re-establishment of national sovereignty after 1991.
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