List of Maps and Tables | p. vii |
Preface | p. viii |
Europe's Last Pagans | p. 1 |
Early inhabitants | p. 1 |
Prehistoric societies | p. 5 |
The northern crusades | p. 11 |
Lithuania's Expansion and Medieval Livonia (1290-1560) | p. 20 |
Lithuania ascending | p. 20 |
Jogaila and Vytautas | p. 24 |
The Jagiellonians | p. 28 |
Feudal Livonia | p. 31 |
Towns, trade and the peasantry | p. 36 |
The Reformation and the disintegration of Livonia | p. 39 |
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Rise of Sweden and Russia (1561-1795) | p. 43 |
The Polish-Lithuanian union and the struggle for hegemony in Livonia | p. 43 |
Swedish dominance and the Great Northern War | p. 50 |
Russia's window to the West | p. 55 |
The decline and partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | p. 61 |
The Long Nineteenth Century under Tsarist Rule (1795-1917) | p. 68 |
Agrarian reforms in the Baltic provinces | p. 68 |
Lithuania within the Russian Empire | p. 72 |
National awakenings | p. 76 |
Russification and modernisation | p. 83 |
The Revolution of 1905 and World War I | p. 90 |
The Short Era of Independence (1917-1939) | p. 95 |
The Russian Revolution and German occupation | p. 95 |
The wars of independence | p. 100 |
From democracy to authoritarianism | p. 106 |
Economic, social and cultural progress | p. 113 |
In search of security | p. 119 |
Between Anvil and Hammer (1939-1953) | p. 124 |
Soviet annexation | p. 124 |
Nazi Ostland | p. 131 |
Fighting in foreign uniform | p. 136 |
Resistance, repression and collectivisation | p. 141 |
Soviet Rule (1953-1991) | p. 147 |
Thaw | p. 147 |
Stagnation | p. 151 |
The Singing Revolution | p. 160 |
Towards independence | p. 165 |
Return to the West (1991-2009) | p. 172 |
Building democracy | p. 172 |
Politics in the twenty-first century | p. 178 |
Economic reforms | p. 181 |
Societal transition | p. 184 |
Return to Europe | p. 188 |
Relations with Russia | p. 193 |
Notes | p. 198 |
Chronology | p. 220 |
Place Names | p. 225 |
Further Reading | p. 227 |
Index | p. 238 |
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