1st Edition

Intermarium The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas

576 Pages

by Routledge

576 Pages

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568 Pages

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Description

History and collective memories influence a nation, its culture, and institutions; hence, its domestic politics and foreign policy. That is the case in the Intermarium, the land between the Baltic and Black Seas in Eastern Europe. The area is the last unabashed rampart of Western Civilization in the East, and a point of convergence of disparate cultures. As the inheritor of the freedom and... Read more

Contents

Introduction

Background

Sources and Method

Part I. Intermarium: A Brief History

1. The Origins

2. Medieval Ruthenia and the Mongols

3. The Balts, the Germans, and the Poles

4. The Commonwealth

5. The Partitions

6. World War I and the Revolution

7. Interwar

8. World War II and Liberation

Part II. The Armageddon and Its Aftermath (1939–1992)

9. An Overview

10. The First Soviet Occupation (1939–1941)

11. The Nazi Occupation (1941–1944)

12. The Second Soviet Occupation (1944–1992)

13. Transformation

14. The Liberation

Part III. Post-Soviet Continuities and Discontinuities:Domestic and Foreign Challenges

15. An Overview

16. Contemporary Politics

17. The Baltics

18. Southern and Central Intermarium

19. Lifting the "Velvet Curtain": Geopolitics andForeign Policy in the Intermarium

20. The Majorities and the Minorities

Part IV. Chain of Memory

21. An Overview

22. Landscapes and Impressions

23. False Consciousness

24. A Sample of Individual Recollections

25. National Stereotypes

26. Koniuchy: A Case Study

Conclusion

Appendix I: The Death Toll in the Intermarium during the Twentieth Century

Appendix II: Maps

Bibliography

Index