Lithuania : stepping westward / Thomas Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, Thomas., author.

Series:

Postcommunist states and nations.

Postcommunist states and nations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lithuania--History.

Lithuania.

Lithuania--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

First published 2001 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 30, 2014).

ISBN:

1-134-49934-5

1-134-49935-3

1-280-07481-7

9786610074815

0-203-40274-X

9780203402740

OCLC:

913796828