TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liekis,Sarunas
TI  - 1939: the year that changed everything in Lithuania´s history 
T2  - On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom and moral imagination in the Baltics
SN  - 9042027622
U1  - 947.9 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York, NY
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Lituania
KW  - Política y gobierno
KW  - 1918-1945
KW  - Vilna (Lituania)
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Relaciones étnicas
N1  - Incluye bibliografía; CHAPTER 1. THE INTERWAR LITHUANIAN REPUBLIC - BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT: History -- Economic dimension -- Political dimension -- Social dimension -- Defence potential: the main parameters -- The determinants of mobilisation -- Lithuania -- Germany -- The USSR -- Poland -- CHAPTER 2. A DEVELOPING CRISIS: Memel -- Politics in the Klaipeda District -- Flotten parade -- The Vydunas Affair: a German-Lithuanian cultural stand-off -- The beginning of the end: a creeping takeover -- The distant victory: rallying the forces -- Plans and reality -- Embraced by Nazi Germany -- CHAPTER 3. A NEW FOCUS: International politics and the shift into the Soviet sphere of influence -- The Soviet takeover of Vilnius -- The takeover of Vilnius by Lithuania -- The mobilisation -- The march on Vilnius -- The social situation -- The economic situation -- Political crimes -- The Suwalki Triangle -- CHAPTER 4. THE POLISH AND JEWISH QUESTIONS AND THE NEW AUTHORITIES: How did the Suwalki Jewish crisis start? -- The new old Polish question in Lithuania -- The Catholic Church and the Polish question in Vilnius -- The concordat with the Vatican and its application in the Vilnius area -- Possible solutions to the Vilnius issue -- Drifting into Soviet hands -- The Patterns of anti-Jewish violence prior to 1939: the Lithuanian case -- Jewish-Polish relations facing the Lithuanian Administration in Vilnius, 1939-1940 -- The failure to revive the Vilnius Jewish community in 1939 -- CHAPTER 5. THE END OF THE REPUBLIC: Growing tensions -- The Lithuanian Army and its readiness for conflict -- The beginning of the end
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