1939 : the year that changed everything in Lithuania´s history / Šarūnas Liekis.

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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.