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Bassler Gerhard P. <1937-> |
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Titolo |
Alfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival / / Gerhard P. Bassler |
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Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000 |
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©2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-4875-9642-1 |
9786612036910 |
1-4426-7074-6 |
1-282-03691-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (505 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political corruption - Newfoundland and Labrador |
History |
Biographies. |
Electronic books. |
Latvia History 1918-1940 |
Latvia History 1940-1991 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; 1. Wunderkind in Reborn Latvia: Background, Education, and Civil Service Career, 1908-1938 -- ; 2. 'The Most Active and Influential Member of the Cabinet': Minister of Finance, 1938-1939 -- ; 3. 'Better to Die Standing Up Than to Keep on Living on Your Knees': War, Resignation, and Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 -- ; 4. 'Elected to Lead and Manage Latvian National Affairs': The Janus Face of Collaboration, July 1941 to November 1942 -- ; 5. 'Made No Bones about His Antipathy to the German Regime': The Janus Face of Resistance, November 1942 to May 1945 -- ; 6. 'I Had Committed All My Heart and My Efforts to Latvian Exiles': Refugee Politics, 1945-1948 -- ; 7. 'Starting Anew Like Our Fathers Did after the First World War': Immigrant in Canada, 1948-1950 -- ; 8. 'Develop of Perish': The Challenges of Newfoundland, 1950-1955 -- ; 9. 'The Past, Instead of |
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Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself': The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this first serious biography of Alfred Valdmanis, historian Gerhard Bassler casts the story of this political manipulator and chameleon in new terms: the often tragic consequences of the will to survive."--Jacket |
"Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring is more the stuff of fiction than history. Between 1938, at age 29, and his ironic downfall in the safe haven of Canada, he was a finance minister of pre-war Latvia, a government official during the Soviet invasion, a shrewd collaborator under the Nazi occupation, then, a friend to the Allies, a spokesman for Latvian POW and displaced persons, and an adviser to the government of Canada |
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