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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451288403321

Autore

Lane Thomas.

Titolo

Lithuania : stepping westward / / Thomas Lane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2001

ISBN

1-134-49935-3

1-280-07481-7

9786610074815

0-203-40274-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Postcommunist states and nations

Disciplina

327.4793047

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lithuania History

Lithuania Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2001 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Chronology; Preface; Introduction; Map of Lithuania; Section I: Revival and Repression 1914-1985; 1 Independent Lithuania between the Wars; 2 Sovietization 1940-1985; Section II: Independence and the Politics of Transition1985-1999; 3 The Achievement of Independence 1985-1991; 4 Government and Politics in Independent Lithuania; 5 The Lithuanian Economy after Independence; 6 Lithuania's Foreign and National Security Policy; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Lithuania restored her independence, after half a century of Soviet occupation, in the immediate aftermath of the failed Moscow coup in August 1991. As the multi-national Soviet state disintegrated, Lithuania evolved, without war or violence, from a communist state and a command economy to a liberal democracy, a free market, and a society guaranteeing human and minority rights. Lithuania therefore offers a notable example of peaceful transition, all the more impressive in the light of the bloody conflict elsewhere in the former Soviet Union of Yugoslavia, where the aspirations to independence