03917nam 2200769 450 991078053810332120230912124825.01-4875-9642-197866120369101-4426-7074-61-282-03691-210.3138/9781442670747(CKB)2430000000001323(EBL)3255324(SSID)ssj0000288511(PQKBManifestationID)11232470(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288511(PQKBWorkID)10373630(PQKB)11621409(CaBNvSL)thg00600580 (DE-B1597)464166(OCoLC)1013949190(OCoLC)944178272(DE-B1597)9781442670747(Au-PeEL)EBL4671177(CaPaEBR)ebr11256897(OCoLC)666916509(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104407(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/06c9mw(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418000(MiAaPQ)EBC4671177(MiAaPQ)EBC3255324(EXLCZ)99243000000000132320160922h20002000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAlfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival /Gerhard P. BasslerToronto, [Canada] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2000.©20001 online resource (505 p.)HeritageDescription based upon print version of record.1-4875-9815-7 0-8020-4413-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself': The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954.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 CanadaPolitical corruptionNewfoundland and LabradorLatviaHistory1918-1940LatviaHistory1940-1991History.Biographies.Electronic books. Political corruption971.063/3/092Bassler Gerhard P.1937-1463785MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780538103321Alfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival3673209UNINA