03562oam 22006252a 450 991049589180332120230829001005.00-585-18025-3(CKB)111004366704214(MH)001959269-8(SSID)ssj0000193221(PQKBManifestationID)12020536(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193221(PQKBWorkID)10218549(PQKB)10180504(EXLCZ)9911100436670421419900209d1990 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtccrLithuania awakening /Alfred Erich Senn[electronic resource]Berkeley University of California Pressc19901 online resource (294 p., [32] p. of plates )ill. ;Society and culture in East-Central Europe Lithuania awakening Societies and culture in East-Central Europe ;4Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-07170-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika released new forces throughout Soviet society. In Lithuania this process resulted in a psychological-cultural revolution. Deep-rooted feelings, long suppressed, exploded, demonstrations and mass meetings ensued, and the face of the society changed. Although at the beginning of 1988 Lithuania appeared to be one of the relatively conservative republics in the Soviet Union, by the end of the year it stood among the leaders in pushing change. By 1990, Lithuania was even forcing Moscow to respond to its initiatives for independence and economic reform. Is Lithuania the prototype of a nation emerging from the collectivity of the Soviet Union? Alfred Erich Senn, who was present during most of this piece of history in the making, believes that it may be. He documents the dramatic events and changes in Lithuania during 1988 with the perspective of a historian and the immediacy of a participant. The reader will easily grasp the whole spectrum of political activity in Lithuania, and the range from right to left among Lithuanian activists. And, because the Lithuanians have emerged among the leaders of change in the Soviet Union, Senn's account provides a key to later developments, in terms of both political movements and political personalities.NationalismLithuaniaHistory20th centuryNationalismHistory20th centuryLithuaniaRussia & Former Soviet RepublicsHILCCRegions & Countries - EuropeHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCLithuaniaHistory1918-1945LithuaniaHistory1945-LithuaniaHistory1945-1991History.fastNationalismHistoryNationalismHistoryRussia & Former Soviet RepublicsRegions & Countries - EuropeHistory & Archaeology947/.5084Senn Alfred Erich485216DLCDLCHLSBOOK9910495891803321Lithuania awakening2861081UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress