Lithuania : A History.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Richard, 1968-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (511 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

The first popular history of a small post-Soviet state, and a very old European power.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Photos

Contents

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

1. The Rise of an Empire (to 1386)

i. From the Ice Age to the Iron Age

ii. Pagans and Christians

iii. Dynastic Empire

2. Forging a Union (1386-1569)

i. Jogaila and Vytautas

ii. The Political Nation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

iii. Reformation, Reform, and Union

3. A Commonwealth of Two Nations? (1569-1795)

i. Defining and Defending the Union

ii. Consolidation and Counter-Reformation

iii. Crisis of the Commonwealth

iv. Christians and Jews in Town and Country

v. Sarmatians and Revolutionaries

4. Under Imperial Rule (1795-1914)

i. Romantic Lithuania

ii. Risings and Reprisals

iii. Temperance and Literacy

iv. Modern Lithuanian Nationalism and its Rivals

5. Breaking Empires, Making Nations? (1914-1940)

i. From Occupation to Independence

ii. Between Democracy and Autocracy

iii. Independence Lost

6. Hammer, Swastika, and Sickle (1940-1991)

i. Soviet and Nazi Occupations and the Holocaust

ii. Diplomats and Diasporas

iii. Sovietisation and Lithuanisation

iv. Independence Regained

7. A Country in Europe (1991-2024)

i. A Democratic Republic

ii. Social Transformations

iii. 26 May 2024

Family Tree of the Gediminid-Jagiellonian Dynasty

Acknowledgements

List of Maps and Illustrations

Notes

Further Reading

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-784212-7

0-19-784582-7

0-19-784581-9

OCLC:

1534116679