Alfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival:
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1. Verfasser: Bassler, Gerhard P. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto University of Toronto Press c2000
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-456) and index
1 - Wunderkind in Reborn Latvia: Background, Education, and Civil Service Career, 1908-1938 -- - 2 - 'The Most Active and Influential Member of the Cabinet': Minister of Finance, 1938-1939 -- - 3 - 'Better to Die Standing Up Than to Keep on Living on Your Knees': War, Resignation, and Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 -- - 4 - 'Elected to Lead and Manage Latvian National Affairs': The Janus Face of Collaboration, July 1941 to November 1942 -- - 5 - 'Made No Bones about His Antipathy to the German Regime': The Janus Face of Resistance, November 1942 to May 1945 -- - 6 - 'I Had Committed All My Heart and My Efforts to Latvian Exiles': Refugee Politics, 1945-1948 -- - 7 - 'Starting Anew Like Our Fathers Did after the First World War': Immigrant in Canada, 1948-1950 -- - 8 - 'Develop of Perish': The Challenges of Newfoundland, 1950-1955 -- - 9 - 'The Past, Instead of Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself': The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954
"Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring is more the stuff of fiction than history. Between 1938, at age 29, and his ironic downfall in the safe haven of Canada, he was a finance minister of pre-war Latvia, a government official during the Soviet invasion, a shrewd collaborator under the Nazi occupation, then, a friend to the Allies, a spokesman for Latvian POW and displaced persons, and an adviser to the government of Canada
In this first serious biography of Alfred Valdmanis, historian Gerhard Bassler casts the story of this political manipulator and chameleon in new terms: the often tragic consequences of the will to survive."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 472 p.)
ISBN:0802044131
1442670746
9780802044136
9781442670747

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