A Concise History of the Baltic States

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A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE BALTIC STATES
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PREFACE
1 THE PEOPLES OF THE EASTERN BALTIC LITTORAL
	ORIGINS
	ACHIEVING RECOGNITION
	BALTIC-AREA TRIBAL SOCIETIES: OVERAL CHARACTERISTICS
	BELIEFS AND BELIEF SYSTEMS
	INTEREST IN THE EASTERN BALTIC LITTORAL
2 THE NEW ORDER, 1200–1500
	CHRISTIANS, TRADERS, AND CRUSADERS
	THE LITHUANIANS AND THE TEUTONIC ORDER
	THE LIVONIAN CONFEDERATION
	THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA
	BRITTLE AMALGAMS
3 THE NEW ORDER RECONFIGURED, 1500–1710
	THE COLLAPSE OF THE LIVONIAN CONFEDERATION
	THE REPUBLIC OF TWO NATIONS: POLAND AND LITHUANIA
	SWEDISH ADMINISTRATION OF ESTONIA AND LIVONIA
	THE MANORIAL REGIME AND SERFDOM
	RELIGION AND THE PRINTED WORD
	COLLIDING AMBITIONS AFTER 1650
4 INSTALLING HEGEMONY: THE LITTORAL AND TSARIST RUSSIA, 1710–1800
	RUSSIA AS A PERMISSIVE AUTOCRACY
	RUSSIA AS AN INTRUSIVE NEIGHBOR
	ENLIGHTENMENT ECHOES AND PEASANT MAJORITIES
	COMPLETION OF HEGEMONY AND GOVERNMENTAL INNOVATIONS
	SOCIAL ORDERS AND LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES
5 REFORMING AND CONTROLLING THE BALTIC LITTORAL, 1800–1855
	RESEARCHING THE LITTORAL
	ESTATES, LORDS, AND SERFS
	REFORMING SERFDOM
	THE ABOLITION OF SERFDOM IN THE BALTIC PROVINCES
	THE UPRISING OF 1830–1831 IN THE LITHUANIAN LANDS
	CULTURAL PATRONAGE AND CULTURAL CLIENTAGE
6 FIVE DECADES OF TRANSFORMATIONS, 1855–1905
	UNFINISHED BUSINESS: LABOR RENTS AND  SERFDOM
	AWAKENING THE NATIONS: THE BALTIC PROVINCES
	SEARCHING FOR THE NATION: THE LITHUANIAN LANDS AND LATGALE
	THE TRANSFORMATION OF CITY LIFE
	TESTING NATIONAL IDENTITY: RUSSIFICATION AND SOCIALISM
7 STATEHOOD IN TROUBLED TIMES, 1905–1940
	THE YEAR 1905 IN THE BALTIC LITTORAL
	CLEAVAGES AND COMMONALITIES AFTER 1905
	THE GREAT WAR IN THE LITTORAL
	CARPE DIEM
	INDEPENDENCE WARS
	STATE-BUILDING AND PARLIAMENTARISM
	THREE AUTHORITARIAN PRESIDENTS
	LABORING AGAINST THE ODDS
8 THE RETURN OF EMPIRES, 1940–1991
	THE USSR EXPANDS
	OSTLAND AND THE GERMAN OCCUPATION
	BACK ON THE SOCIALIST ROAD
	AFTER STALIN
	CHANGE AND STAGNATION, DISSENT AND ACQUIESCENCE
	THE BEWILDERED VANGUARD
	THE ASHHEAP OF HISTORY
9 REENTERING EUROPE, 1991–
	POPULATIONS IN MOTION
	GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC OPINION
	NATIONAL STATES OR WELFARE STATES
	NETWORKING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
	REDISCOVERING THE PAST
	THE TRAVAILS OF NORMALITY
SUGGESTED READINGS
	GENERAL
	THE PEOPLES OF THE EASTERN BALTICLITTORAL
	THE NEW ORDER, 1200–1500
	THE NEW ORDER RECONFIGURED, 1500–1710
	INSTALLING HEGEMONY: THE LITTORAL AND TSARIST RUSSIA, 1710–1800
	REFORMING AND CONTROLLING THE BALTIC LITTORAL, 1800–1855
	FIVE DECADES OF TRANSFORMATIONS, 1855–1905
	STATEHOOD IN TROUBLED TIMES, 1905–1940
	THE RETURN OF EMPIRES, 1940–1991
	REENTERING EUROPE, 1991–
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