LEADER 03917nam 2200769 450 001 9910780538103321 005 20230912124825.0 010 $a1-4875-9642-1 010 $a9786612036910 010 $a1-4426-7074-6 010 $a1-282-03691-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442670747 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001323 035 $a(EBL)3255324 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000288511 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11232470 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288511 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10373630 035 $a(PQKB)11621409 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600580 035 $a(DE-B1597)464166 035 $a(OCoLC)1013949190 035 $a(OCoLC)944178272 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442670747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671177 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256897 035 $a(OCoLC)666916509 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104407 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/06c9mw 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418000 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671177 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255324 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001323 100 $a20160922h20002000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival /$fGerhard P. Bassler 210 1$aToronto, [Canada] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2000. 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (505 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4875-9815-7 311 $a0-8020-4413-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $g1.$tWunderkind in Reborn Latvia: Background, Education, and Civil Service Career, 1908-1938 --$g2.$t'The Most Active and Influential Member of the Cabinet': Minister of Finance, 1938-1939 --$g3.$t'Better to Die Standing Up Than to Keep on Living on Your Knees': War, Resignation, and Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 --$g4.$t'Elected to Lead and Manage Latvian National Affairs': The Janus Face of Collaboration, July 1941 to November 1942 --$g5.$t'Made No Bones about His Antipathy to the German Regime': The Janus Face of Resistance, November 1942 to May 1945 --$g6.$t'I Had Committed All My Heart and My Efforts to Latvian Exiles': Refugee Politics, 1945-1948 --$g7.$t'Starting Anew Like Our Fathers Did after the First World War': Immigrant in Canada, 1948-1950 --$g8.$t'Develop of Perish': The Challenges of Newfoundland, 1950-1955 --$g9.$t'The Past, Instead of Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself': The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954. 330 8 $aIn 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 330 1 $a"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 606 $aPolitical corruption$zNewfoundland and Labrador 607 $aLatvia$xHistory$y1918-1940 607 $aLatvia$xHistory$y1940-1991 608 $aHistory. 608 $aBiographies. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical corruption 676 $a971.063/3/092 700 $aBassler$b Gerhard P.$f1937-$01463785 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780538103321 996 $aAlfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival$93673209 997 $aUNINA