The Sovietization of the Baltic States. Ed. by Olaf Mertelsmann

Contents

Olaf Mertelsmann: Introduction

Walter C. Clemens, Jr.: Comparative Repression and Comparative Resistance: What explains Survival?

Craig Gerrard: The USSR and the Baltic States at the End of World War II: the View from London

Dmitrii Smirnov: Sovietization, Terror and Repression in the Baltic States in the 1940s and 1950s: The Perspective of contemporary Russian Society

Geoffrey Swain: “Cleaning up Soviet Latvia”: The Bureau for Latvia (Latburo), 1944-47

Rüdiger Ritter: Prescribed Identity: The Role of History for the Legitimization of Soviet Rule in Lithuania

Timofei Agarin: Demographic and Cultural Policies of the Soviet Union in Lithuania from 1944 to 1956. A Post-colonial Perspective

Anu Mai Kõll: Tender Wolves. Identification and Persecution of Kulaks in Viljandimaa, 1940-1949

Olaf Mertelsmann: Was there Stalinist Industrialization in the Baltic Republics? Estonia – an Example

Glenn Eric Kranking: Will They Stay Or Will They Go? Soviet Propaganda and the Estonian-Swedes During the First Year of Soviet Occupation

Riho Altnurme: The Sovietization of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church

Irena Saleniece: Teachers as the Object and Subject of Sovietization in Latvia: Daugavpils, 1944-1953

Marie-Alice L’Heureux: Representing Ideology, Designing Memory
Cornelius Hasselblatt: The Fairy Tale of Socialism: how ‘socialist’ was the ‘new’ Literature in Soviet Estonia?

Jeremy Smith: Republican Authority and Khrushchev’s Education Reform in Latvia and Estonia, 1958-1959

List of Contributors