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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2001. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. (288 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. Lithuania restored her independence, after haf a century of Soviet occupation, in the immediate aftermath of the faied Moscow coup in August 1991. As the muti-nationa Soviet state disintegrated, Lithuania evoved, without war or vioence, from a communist state and a command economy to a ibera democracy, a free market, and a society guaranteeing human and minority rights. Lithuania therefore offers a notabe exampe of peacefu transition, a the more impressive in the ight of the boody confict esewhere in the former Soviet Union of Yugosavia, where the aspirations to independence of the constituent repubics were either vioenty resisted or dissoved into inter-ethnic vioence. Equay remarkabe has been Lithuania's determination to 'return to Europe' after haf a century of separation, even at the price of submerging its recenty restored sovereign rights in the supranationa European Union. The cost of membership in western economic and security organizations are judged to be worth paying to prevent Lithuania's being drawn once again into a putative Russian sphere of infuence. On the threshod of a new miennium therefore, Lithuania has made a pragmatic accommodation to the demands of becoming a modern European state, whist vigorousy resisting the diution of her rich cutura and historica traditions. These twin themes of accommodation and resistance are Lithuania's historica egacy to the current generations of Lithuanians as they integrate into European institutions and continue the modernization process. Part I - Reviva and Repression 1914-1985 1. Independent Lithuania between Wars 2. Sovietization 1940-1985 Part II - Independence and the Poitics of Transition 1985 - 1999 3. The Achievement of Independence 1985-1991 4. Government and Poitics in Independent Lithuania 5. The Lithuanian Economy after Independence 6. Lithuania's Foreign and Nationa Security Poicy (Hardback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415267315

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Book Description: Routledge, 2003. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # zk0415267315

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