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Book The Baltoscandian Confederation

Download or read book The Baltoscandian Confederation written by Kazys Pakštas and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Baltoscandian Confederation  By Prof  Kazys Pak  tas

Download or read book The Baltoscandian Confederation By Prof Kazys Pak tas written by Lithuanian Cultural Institute and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Baltoscandian Confederation

Download or read book The Baltoscandian Confederation written by Kazys Pakštas and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Download or read book A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe written by Balázs Trencsényi and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive tothe cross-cultural entanglement of political ideas and discourses. Its principal aim is to make these cultures available for the global 'market of ideas' and revisit some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political thought, and modernity as such.The present volume is a sequel to Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'. It begins with the end of the Great War, depicting the colorful intellectual landscape of the interwar period and the increasing political and ideological radicalization culminating in the SecondWorld War. Taking the war experience both as a breaking point but in many ways also a transmitter of previous intellectual traditions, it maps the intellectual paradigms and debates of the immediate postwar years, marked by a negotiation between the democratic and communist agendas, as well as thesubsequent processes of political and cultural Stalinization. Subsequently, the post-Stalinist period is analyzed with a special focus on the various attempts of de-Stalinization and the rise of revisionist Marxism and other critical projects culminating in the carnivalesque but also extremelydramatic year of 1968. This volume is followed by Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part II: 1968-2018.

Book The Idea of Central Europe

Download or read book The Idea of Central Europe written by Otilia Dhand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Europe is one of the key notions of classical geopolitics yet it has always been a somewhat elusive concept. Originally perceived as a plan for a German dominated political and economic union, it subsequently emerged to threaten leaders in the East and West in a variety of forms. Otilia Dhand provides a critical examination of the concept of Central Europe, from its early inception to the present day. Making extensive use of archival material, she shows how successive manifestations of Central Europe - of whatever vintage - have failed to bring about their intended changes on the international structure, and how customary claims about Central Europe are not supported by the original source material. The result is a work of outstanding scholarship that advances our understanding of regionalism and geopolitics in Europe.

Book Raven   S Flight to Freedom

Download or read book Raven S Flight to Freedom written by Dr. Algirdas V. Kanauka and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of my survival, adventures, experiences, and insights about geopolitics and changing worldviews from before World War II Lithuania to Soviet occupation and my escape and evasion through wartime Germany till the end of WWII. It also talks about my life as a refugee in displaced-persons camp for four years and my immigration to the United States of America in 1949. Five years later, having graduated from the Citadel Military College, I was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Air Force and participated in the Cold War as a combat crew member of Strategic Air Commands Bombers B-52 and B-58. Then I had a stint with research and development of F-111 weapons systems at Wright Air Development Center and about a year in Southeast Asian war (Vietnam) with an F-111 fighter-bomber detachment. Then I went back to Europe on an US AF project. Finally, after twenty-two years, I retired from the Air Force to Southern California and worked in the aerospace industry and had new experiences and insights about mens venture into the cosmos. However, after the dissolution of Soviet Union, the old country of Lithuania became free, and I went there to help rebuild the country and pay my debt to it by consulting the general staff and teaching at the military academy there. There are more insights and adventures. Finally, I retire to cool my heels in the warm waters of the Pacific Rim in Southern Californias Rancho Palos Verdes as a freelance writer.

Book Capital Cities  Varieties and Patterns of Development and Relocation

Download or read book Capital Cities Varieties and Patterns of Development and Relocation written by Vadim Rossman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of capital city relocation is a topic of debate for more than forty countries across the world. In this first book to discuss the issue, Vadim Rossman offers an in-depth analysis of the subject, highlighting the global trends and the key factors that motivate different countries to consider such projects, analyzing the outcomes and drawing lessons from recent capital city transfers worldwide for governments and policy-makers. Capital Cities studies the approaches and the methodologies that inform such decisions and debates. Special attention is given to the study of the universal patterns of relocation and patterns specific to particular continents and mega-regions and particular political regimes. The study emphasizes the role of capital city transfers in the context of nation- and state-building and offers a new framework for thinking about capital cities, identifying six strategies that drive these decisions, representing the economic, political, geographic, cultural and security considerations. Confronting the popular hyper-critical attitudes towards new designed capital cities, Vadim Rossman shows the complex motives that underlie the proposals and the important role that new capitals might play in conflict resolution in the context of ethnic, religious and regional rivalries and federalist transformations of the state, and is seeking to identify the success and failure factors and more efficient implementation strategies. Drawing upon the insights from spatial economics, comparative federalist studies, urban planning and architectural criticism, the book also traces the evolution of the concept of the capital city, showing that the design, iconography and the location of the capital city play a critical role in the success and the viability of the state.

Book Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism

Download or read book Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism written by Mindaugas Kvietkauskas and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- The Paradox of the Double Post /Mindaugas Kvietkauskas -- The History of Post-Soviet Literature: Challenges and Models of a New Identity /Aušra Jurgutienė -- Postmodernism as Conjuncture /Dalia Satkauskytė -- The Writer in the Post-Soviet State: Trends in Self-Interpretation /Loreta Jakonytė -- Lithuanian Prose: in Search of a New Identity /Jūratė Sprindytė -- The Present of Past Things: Transformations of Lithuanian Historical Discourse /Algis Kalėda -- Apocalyptic Imagination in the Novels of Ričardas Gavelis /Regimantas Tamošaitis -- Three Articulations of Isaac in Lithuanian Literature /Loreta Mačianskaitė -- Women's Literature and Its Readings /Solveiga Daugirdaitė -- Patterns of Post-War Memory /Saulė Matulevičienė -- Forms of Self-Awareness in Lithuanian Documentary Literature /Elena Baliutytė -- Lithuanian Essay: Between the Soviet Era and Independence /Dalia Čiočytė -- Tomas Venclova: The Poet and Totalitarianism /Donata Mitaitė -- Sources of Classicism in Contemporary Polish and Lithuanian Literature /Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė -- Lyric Poetry since the 1980s: Caught Between Unrest and Meditation /Rita Tūtlytė -- The Art of the Unpoetic Poem: Trends in Post-Soviet Lithuanian Poetry /Brigita Speičytė -- Authors -- Index of Names.

Book Plans for European Union in Great Britain and in Exile 1939   1945

Download or read book Plans for European Union in Great Britain and in Exile 1939 1945 written by Walter Lipgens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Plans for European Union in Great Britain and in Exile 1939-1945".

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1954
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2182 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 2182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Baltic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael North
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-04-07
  • ISBN : 0674744101
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book The Baltic written by Michael North and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering over a thousand years in a part of the world where seas have been much more connective than land, The Baltic: A History transforms the way we think about a body of water too often ignored in studies of the world’s major waterways. The Baltic lands have been populated since prehistory by diverse linguistic groups: Balts, Slavs, Germans, and Finns. North traces how the various tribes, peoples, and states of the region have lived in peace and at war, as both global powers and pawns of foreign regimes, and as exceptionally creative interpreters of cultural movements from Christianity to Romanticism and Modernism. He examines the golden age of the Vikings, the Hanseatic League, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and Peter the Great, and looks at the hard choices people had to make in the twentieth century as fascists, communists, and liberal democrats played out their ambitions on the region’s doorstep. With its vigorous trade in furs, fish, timber, amber, and grain and its strategic position as a thruway for oil and natural gas, the Baltic has been—and remains—one of the great economic and cultural crossroads of the world.

Book Report of the Select Committee to Investigate Communist Aggression and the Forced Incorporation of the Baltic States Into the U S S R

Download or read book Report of the Select Committee to Investigate Communist Aggression and the Forced Incorporation of the Baltic States Into the U S S R written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Aggression and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Download or read book A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe written by Balázs Trencsenyi and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, Volume II Part II examines the defeat of the vision of 'socialism with a human face' in 1968 and the political discourses produced by the various 'consolidation' or 'normalization' regimes. It closes with pertinent questions about the fragility of the democratic order globally.

Book Latvia  Economic Resources and Capacities

Download or read book Latvia Economic Resources and Capacities written by Ludvigs Ekīs and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Regions and Boundaries

Download or read book European Regions and Boundaries written by Diana Mishkova and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions—supra-national geographical designations such as “Scandinavia,” “Eastern Europe,” and “the Balkans.” Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping, and historically constructed concepts. This volume is the first to provide a synthetic account of these concepts and the historical and intellectual contexts in which they emerged. Bringing together prominent international scholars from across multiple disciplines, it systematically and comprehensively explores how such “meso-regions” have been conceptualized throughout modern European history.

Book Bridging the Baltic Sea

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  • Author : Lars Fredrik Stöcker
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2017-12-20
  • ISBN : 1498551289
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Bridging the Baltic Sea written by Lars Fredrik Stöcker and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian émigré politics in Cold War Sweden and its linkages with both the host and homeland societies, this book investigates the transnational dimension of resistance and opposition to the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis of the constantly shifting, at times conspiratorial, and even subversive networks that transcended the Iron Curtain draws a line from World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union, framing half a century of transnationally concerted political activism in a geographical context that has not received much scholarly attention. Challenging the image of the Baltic Sea Region as a periphery of the European Cold War theater, the topography of the multilayered and complex linkages between neutral Sweden and her opposite coasts suggests that the small inland sea was a particularly vibrant setting for processes that efficiently defied the rigid border regimes of the Cold War era. This book relates both to ongoing historiographical debates about the scope and extent of East-West contacts that developed underneath the radar of international diplomacy and to the question of the role, significance, and impact of émigré politics during the Cold War. Embedding the dynamics of transnationally framed opposition in the wider context of political, economic, and cultural relations at the northeastern peripheries of divided Europe, the study not only sheds new light on so far still unexplored facets of interaction and cooperation between societies in East and West, but also offers a first comprehensive synthesis of the Baltic Sea Region’s post-war history.

Book OSS Foreign Nationalities Branch Files  1942 1945

Download or read book OSS Foreign Nationalities Branch Files 1942 1945 written by United States. Office of Strategic Services. Foreign Nationalities Branch and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents consist of departmental memos and reports, correspondence with individuals, and press clippings and press reports which deal with American Jewish groups during 1942-1945, as well as issues relating to Palestine, Jews and Jewish refugees during World War II.