Europe's last pagans -- Lithuania's expansion and medieval Livonia (1290-1560) --The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the rise of Sweden and Russia (1561-1795) --The long nineteenth century Tsarist rule (1795-1917) -- The short era of independence (1917-1939) -- Between anvil and hammer (1939-1953) -- Soviet rule (1953-1991) -- Return to the West (1991-2009).
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"Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania experienced a sequence of foreign regimes, including Nazism and communism, before recovering their independence and joining the European Union. Clearly and accessibly written, this book is one of the first to provide a general overview of their histories from the stone age to the present using a comparative approach"--