Lithuania

This book explores Lithuania's pagan ancestry and epochal struggles with Germanic and Russian states and examines Lithuania's struggle with the legacy of Soviet rule as it strives to establish democracy and economic prosperity. Westview Series on the Post-Soviet Republics -- Preface -- About the Book and Author -- At the European Crossroads:Lithuania's Historical Roots -- A Taste of Independence, 1918-1940 -- Foreign Rule:Invasion from the East -- Resistance, Survival, and Reform -- Sąjūdis and the Party: The March Toward Independence -- Between the Kremlin and the West: Securing Independence -- New Beginnings: The Politics of Transition