Traces of the Cold War : the countries around the Baltic Sea / Johannes Bach Rasmussen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rasmussen, Johannes Bach.

Series:

Travel guide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baltic Sea Region--History.

Baltic Sea Region.

Baltic Sea Region--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Nordic Council of Ministers, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This travel guide describes selected important historical relics,sites and museums in the Baltic Sea region telling the history ofthe Cold War period. There is public access to nearly all the sites included in the book. It covers places such as missile bases, large artillery batteries, secret police prisons, closed military towns, partisan bunkers, execution and burial sites, nuclear bunker complexes, secret printing houses, former Soviet sculptures and architecture along with many of the sites where important events took place, such as demonstrations, freedom struggles etc. The museums described recount the histories of the Berlin Wall, the military build-up in both East and West, the military crises, the terror of Stalin and the Communist secret police, the armed and unarmed resistance in former Soviet countries and its satellite states, the deportations of slave labourers to remote parts of the Soviet Union, the deportations to the GULAG camps and the struggles for freedom from Communist regimes in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, East Germany and Russia.

Contents:

""The Museum of the Barricades of 1991"" ""The Museum of the Popular Front of Latvia""; ""Cattle Wagon Used for Deportations, Skrunda Railway Station""; ""Skrunda, Latvia""; ""Ligatne, Latvia""; ""A Closed Military Town""; ""Liepaja, Latvia""; ""Zeltini Missile Base""; ""Aluksne, Latvia""; ""Secret Soviet Radio Telescope and Former Closed Town""; ""Irbene, Latvia""; ""Lithuania""; ""Imprisoned by the KGB, Deported and Finally Banished from his Home Country""; ""A Youth Spent in KGB Prisons and GULAG Camps""; ""Memorial Sites of the Freedom Demonstrations. 1991""; ""Vilnius, Lithuania""; ""Museum of X Pavilion, The Warsaw Citadel. Deported Polish People""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

923313088