Lithuania : stepping westward / / Thomas Lane

• Autore: Lane Thomas.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.4793047
• Soggetto geografico: Lithuania History; Lithuania Politics and government
• Note generali: First published 2001 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Lithuania 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Lithuania
• ISBN: 1-134-49934-5; 1-134-49935-3; 1-280-07481-7; 9786610074815; 0-203-40274-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783878803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Postcommunist states and nations.