Latvia is a historic and pretty coastal European country on the Baltic Sea that is bordered by Estonia, Lithuania, Russia and Belarus. The capital Riga is a World Heritage Site. Next door, Lithuania i
Tracing the development of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania over the last quarter century, this text considers the political history and the impact of the Soviet era on the modern states and compares ins
Tied together only by the touch of the Baltic Sea, the poems in this anthology feature the invigorating voices and visions of Northern Europe. The Baltic Quintet gives the reader a taste of the poetic
Written as a dissertation at the University of California, and now revised, "Ruthenica Bohemica" examines the historical circumstances and textual history of four 15th-century Ruthenian translations f
Although Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are culturally distinct, they share a common theatre history characterized by resistance, first as a response to Nazi occupation, then as an ideological weapon
"Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century provides a wide-ranging synthesis of the current scholarship on Polish-Lithuanian Jewry. Gershon David Hundert's control of the secondary literature
Returning to his old unit, the grenade launcher, in May 1944, he experienced the heavy defensive battles in Romania as a platoon commander and from August 1944 in East Prussia and Lithuania. After bei
The Battle of Grunwald was one of the largest battles in Medieval Europe and was the most important in the histories of Poland and Lithuania.It was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish-Lithuania-T
Born into a leading Lithuanian-Jewish rabbinic family, Moshe Aron Reguer initially followed the path of traditional yeshiva education. His adolescence coincided with World War I and its upheavals, pa
After May 2004, when Poland and Britain were both members of the European Union, some thought there might be other features the two countries shared, or perhaps did not share in some degree that the c
This biography chronicles the life of Lithuanian president Antanas Smetona (1874-1944), his importance in the Lithuanian national movement, his role in the emergence of modern Lithuania, and the devel
In Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones examines the remarkable cultural preoccupation with death in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795), through a range of B
Gender Equality on a Grand Tour. Politics and Institutions – the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia explores the establishment, development and transformation of gender equality institutions
