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200 10$aLithuania $estepping westward /$fThomas Lane
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge :$cTaylor & Francis Group,$d2001.
215   $a1 online resource (287 p.)
225 1 $aPostcommunist states and nations
300   $aFirst published 2001 by Routledge.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; 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
330   $aLithuania 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 
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