- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Oct 28 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415331935
- ISBN-13: 978-0415331937
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,863,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'This book asks the difficult question about the link of political polarization and ethnic conflict and therefore makes an important contribution to the research about the second World War.' - Osteuropa
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Covering the horrors that took place in Latvia from the beginning of the Second World War until 1947, this book focuses on the heart of the 20th century: Stalinist industrialization, collectivization and political annihilation; Nazi expansionism and genocide; with local nationalism, local nationalist rivalries, and local anti-Semitism. The author traces the developments in one particular region of Latvia, Daugavpils. There, the dilemma of Hitler or Stalin, the ideological struggle of fascism or communism was more acute than anywhere else in Europe since the population was actively involved in establishing both.
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In summer 1936 two twelve-year-old boys left the volleyball court of the second Latvian primary school in Daugavpils; their names were Iosif Steiman and Freds Blzmanis. Read the first page
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In summer 1936 two twelve-year-old boys left the volleyball court of the second Latvian primary school in Daugavpils; their names were Iosif Steiman and Freds Blzmanis. Read the first page
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A good summary of hell in a small place, Dec 9 2010
By R. L. Huff "An old reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46 (Paperback)
Hell had a home on earth, and that was Latvia in the 1940s, probably the most crimson patch in the so-called "bloodlands" between Hitler and Stalin. Rather than just a moralistic expose of "totalitarian crimes," the author has done a meticulous job of social analysis, delineating who supported which invader and why. Ironically the local nationalists were more blood-thirsty than the Nazis, who drew back at the excesses of their erstwhile collaborators. Focusing on the mixed ethnic/religious region of Latgalia, the reader must sometimes close his eyes at the kaleidoscope of ethnic politics and class interest than swirled in this tight corner. How dizzying it must also have looked to its would-be conquerors, hoping to exploit its class and ethnic antagonisms only to be turned and hamstrung by them. Essential reading for anyone seeking in-depth understanding of the time and place, without the sweeping generalizations of Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands."
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