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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Bassler Gerhard P. <1937->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Alfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival / / Gerhard P. Bassler"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2000"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-4875-9642-1"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786612036910"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-4426-7074-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-282-03691-2"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (505 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Heritage"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"971.063/3/092"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Political corruption - Newfoundland and Labrador"]
[{"$nulls":4},"History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Biographies."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Latvia History 1918-1940"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Latvia History 1940-1991"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"; 1. Wunderkind in Reborn Latvia: Background, Education, and Civil Service Career, 1908-1938 -- ; 2. 'The Most Active and Influential Member of the Cabinet': Minister of Finance, 1938-1939 -- ; 3. 'Better to Die Standing Up Than to Keep on Living on Your Knees': War, Resignation, and Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 -- ; 4. 'Elected to Lead and Manage Latvian National Affairs': The Janus Face of Collaboration, July 1941 to November 1942 -- ; 5. 'Made No Bones about His Antipathy to the German Regime': The Janus Face of Resistance, November 1942 to May 1945 -- ; 6. 'I Had Committed All My Heart and My Efforts to Latvian Exiles': Refugee Politics, 1945-1948 -- ; 7. 'Starting Anew Like Our Fathers Did after the First World War': Immigrant in Canada, 1948-1950 -- ; 8. 'Develop of Perish': The Challenges of Newfoundland, 1950-1955 -- ; 9. 'The Past, Instead of Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself': The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","In this first serious biography of Alfred Valdmanis, historian Gerhard "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Bassler casts the story of this political manipulator and chameleon in new terms: the often tragic consequences of the will to survive.\"--Jacket"]
[{"$nulls":4},"\"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"]