The Latvians: A Short History
- ISBN-10
- 0817993029
- ISBN-13
- 9780817993023
- Category
- History / Europe / Baltic States
- Pages
- 257
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
- Author
- Andrejs Plakans
Description
This is the first English-language volume that brings the history of Latvia to the threshold of the twenty-first century. Until the re-establishment of Latvian independence in 1991, Soviet dominance served for nearly fifty years to hinder publication of any complete and objective historical record of the region. Plakans now places the evolution and formation of the Latvian nation in a balanced, historical framework that stretches from the early medieval period to the present.
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