Russia and the Baltic States: Political Relations, National Identity and Social Thought in XVIII – XX centuries. International Symposium. Russia, Samara, April 6-9, 2001. Samara, 284 Pages. Language: Russian, German, English. Price: only post fee
ISBN 5-7967-0090-1

Contents
Part I Politics and Diplomacy

Guzel Ibneeva The Baltic question (Ostseefrage) at the beginning of the reign of Katherine II Lea Leppik The Baltic General Governors - a weapon of levelling Imperial politics or protectors of the Baltic peculiar rights? Natalia Andreeva The Baltic question (Ostseefrage) and experiments in its solution at the beginning of the 20th century Olga Lopatina The role of the small countries and the Polish question at the Paris peace conference in 1919 Ilja Solomeshch Break and Continuity in Russian-Finnish Relations: the Baltic Irredenta before and after the year of 1917 Elena Dubrovskaja Russian troops in Finland and the population of the Grand Duchy in the years of World War I Karsten Brüggemann "…and then we point our bayonets at Reval!" The Russian Whites and Estonia during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920 Peter Gatrell, Nick Baron War, Population Displacement and State-Building in Latvia and Lithuania, 1918-1924 Markus Lux At Home in a free, but foreign country? – The independence of the Baltic States and the (mostly Russian) minorities Susanne Nies Bridge or Barrier, Bridge over Barriers: Baltic-Russian Relations in the 20th Century Andris Spruds Russian-Latvian relations since 1991

Part II Cultural relations and Political Thought

Sergey Polskoy “The Swedish example” and constitutional reforms in Russia (1730) Maksim Pulkin Oldbelievers in 19 century Finland Vera Dubina Reflections on the Polish insurrection in 1863: "Narodnost" and Nationalism in Russian 19th century Political Thought Michael Leonov "The Secret defence- union" of V.P. Mescherskij and Nicholas II Bradley Woodworth An ambiguous monument: Peter the Great’s return to Tallinn in 1910 Elena Soini Image of Finland in the Russian Literature of the 1920s 1930s Ruth Büttner: "Shop window with slogan-character": Changes in the political and cultural life of Finland after World War II (1944-1948) Irena Saleniece The Latvians and the politics of Russification in different periods of Latvian history in 19 and 20 century Vsevolod Bashkuev Lithuanian deportees in Buryat-Mongolia, 1948-1950 Anton Chistjakov: The Ethno-cultural situation in Ingermanland at the end of the 20th century Denis Trapido Challenges of Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Estonia

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