Baltic States And The Great Powers
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Author_David Crowe
authoritarian regime studies
Baltic Entente
Baltic German
Baltic German migration
Baltic Independence
Baltic States
Baltic Unity
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Demarcation Line
diplomatic relations
Eastern Locarno
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Estonia's military installations
Ethnic Germans
Foreign Minister
German Governments
German-Soviet pact
Gorbachev
Indirect Aggression
International Nonrecognition
international relations research
interwar diplomacy Europe
Latvian Government
Lithuanian Government
Lithuanian Minister
Memel Territory
Mikhail Gorbachev
minority population policies
Mutual Assistance Pact
Reich Officials
Smetona Government
SOS Signal
Soviet annexation history
Soviet occupation Baltic states analysis
Soviet-sponsored legislatures
State Secretary
Von Kotze
Von Saucken
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- ISBN 9780367305741
- Weight: 740g
- Dimensions: 144 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the first complete account of the diplomatic relations and military steps leading to Estonia's, Latvia's, and Lithuania's forcible absorption into the USSR in 1940. David Crowe—making use of recently opened archival sources—traces the Baltic states' relations with the Soviet Union, Germany, Poland, Great Britian, France and with one another from 1917-1940. He starts with an overview of 1917-1936 and then offers a detailed description of the diplomatic maneuvering that marked Europe's collective slide toward war. Crowe covers the Sudeten and Memel crises involving German communities in 1938, the German-Soviet Pact in August 1939, the mutual assistance pacts between the Baltic States and the USSR, the Baltic German migration, Soviet use of Estonia's military installations during their assault on Finland, and the subsequent Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. The story ends with the election of new, Soviet-sponsored legislatures that sought admission into the USSR as Soviet republics in 1940—a step that most Western countries never recognized, and one that the Baltic states finally reversed when they regained their independence fifty-one years later in August 1991.
David M. Crowe is professor of history at Elon College.
