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Ultimate Freedom – No Choice: The Culture of Authoritarianism in Latvia, 1934-1940

By Deniss Hanovs , Valdis Tēraudkalns

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2013
ISBN
9004243550, 9789004243552
ISSN
1877-8550
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4764662 bytes)
Series
Central and Eastern Europe: Regional Perspectives in Global Context 2
Pages
x+272\283
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-10-04 15:36:50
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Description

The Republic of Latvia is a fascinating mirror of the development of European democratic culture and reflects both the rise of democracy in Eastern Europe after the end of World War I and its deterioration into authoritarianism in the early 1930s. The regime, which lasted for only six years (1934-1940), was shaped by the controversial figure of Prime Minister and Leader of the People (Vadonis) Karlis Ulmanis. This new, archive-based study illustrates the development of authoritarianism in the region, shows controversies and similarities and places the regime's leader in the international context of European authoritarian culture. The book shows how mass culture and technologies, ancient drama and European modernism were combined to reinforce the idea of legitimacy of a new non-democratic regime.

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