The Baltic States and the End of the Cold War

This book examines the role of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the downfall of the Soviet Union at the peaceful end of the Cold War. It includes groundbreaking, archives-based research on important facets of the Soviet collapse.

Auteur

Kaarel Piirimäe is an Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu and a Senior Research Fellow at the Estonian War Museum. Olaf Mertelsmann is an Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu.

Contenu

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War Politics of history in Russia Gorbachev, Perestroika and Glasnost Atheism, and informal social networks Soviet cultural diplomacy Danish diplomacy and the Baltic question Normalization regime in Czechoslovakia Baltic diasporas Use of force and the coup d'état in the USSR in 1991 Security narratives in the 1990s