Andrejs Plakans
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 183888 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrejs Plakans |
| PRENOMES | Andrejs |
| SOBRENOME | Plakans |
| ASSINATURA | PLAKANS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Iowa State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 120 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Reluctant Exiles
The book is a group biography of the 175,000+ Latvians who fled their homeland during the final year of World War II (1944–45), lived until 1951 as refugees in Sweden and Germany, and then dispersed to other countries throughout the world. The post-1945 history of these Latvians includes a description of their lives in ‘displaced person’ camps in post-war Germany, dispersion in the 1949–1951 years, resettlement in new host countries in Europe and…
The Commission of Historians in Latvia
In 1999, the President of Latvia, Guntis Ulmanis, created a Commission of Historians and charged it with investigating the nature and consequences for Latvians and Latvia of the two occupations (the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany) the country experienced during the years of World War Two and afterwards. Special focus was to be direct to the Holocaust and to the multiple forms of repression practiced by the Soviet Communist regime. The Commission c…
Family History at the Crossroads
This collection of essays covers most of the important topics in the field of family history, assesses the state of the art, and stresses the themes that will continue to generate interest in the future.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the o…
Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral
The social history of coresidence arrangements in the Latvian region suggests that forms of cohabitation without marriage were present in the Latvian population since the eighteenth century when empirical evidence became available. Before the twentieth century, however, these forms remained marginal and seldom involved choice. The subject of severe criticism until the 1960s–1970s, such forms become more widespread thereafter as the Latvian popula…
Die baltischen Lande im Zeitalter der Reformation und Konfessionalisierung
Latvia
Nearly two decades after renewed independence, the population of Latvia is quite unhappy with the status quo. The number of inhabitants in the country continues to decline due to outmigration and a low fertility level; the international image of the country is believed by Latvians to be ambiguous at best, negative at worst; there is widespread disillusionment with the new political elite, which is thought to be incompetent as well as corrupt; the…
Kinship in Europe
Two 1905 Congresses in Latvia
Two Congresses in November 1905–the Schoolteachers Congress and the Rural Delegates Congress–have played an important role in the narratives of the events of the year 1905 in the Latvian territories of the Russian Baltic provinces. When narrative descriptions of the two are contrasted with the information available about them in the most frequently used contemporary sources–newspaper accounts–the statements that can be made about the two Congress…
Migration, households, and agrarian reform in the Baltic provinces of Russia
Earlier research has shown that migration flows affect household size and that these measures in turn are affected by local and regional legal systems that seek to regulate migration. This article explores these connections in those areas of the 19th century Russian Baltic provinces of Livland and Kurland that in the 20th century became the country of Latvia. Different data bases are used to link variables during the decades after the agrarian re…
Introduction to special issue
During her thirty-five-year involvement with the field of family history and in the publications that involvement generated, Tamara Hareven, co-editor of The History of the Family: An International
Minority nationalities in the Russian Baltic provinces
The population of the Russian Baltic provinces during the second half of the nineteenth century experiences substantial growth and differentiation, though these dynamics are difficult to describe precisely because of the paucity of census data. The first Imperial census took place only in 1897; for earlier periods, provincial censuses have to be relied upon. The 1881 census of the Baltic provinces shows the difficulty of analyzing minority demogr…
The 1881 census in the Russian Baltic provinces
The 1881 census of the Russian Baltic provinces of Livland, Estland, and Kurland was the first modern-type systematic population enumeration in the Baltic area. It had been preceded by enumerations of other kinds—land cadastres that included aggregate population counts (during Swedish control of the area) in the 17th century, and fiscal revisions (during Russian control of the area) that did list residents by name but did not follow any principle…
Obituary
In past years from time to time the Quarterly has published short announcements of the death of prominent scholars in the field of family history, marking their accomplishments and their contributi
Age and family structures among the Jews of Mitau, Kurland, 1833–1834
The article analyzes an 1834 listing of the Jewish inhabitants in the city of Mitau in the province of Kurland, one of the Baltic provinces (the other two were Estland and Livland) of the Russian Empire. From Catherine the Great's reign onward, the Jewish population of the Baltic provinces rose steadily throughout the 19th century, but microstudies of Jewish communities in the region are virtually nonexistent, especially for the first half of the…
Households and kinship networks
In Household and Family in Past Time (1972) Peter Laslett explicitly differentiated the study of kin relations within the domestic group from the study of those beyond it. Yet in subsequent decades the latter project – the conceptualization of the domestic group within the larger kin group – has not proceeded very far, even though it can easily be pictured as the ‘next step’ in micro-structural research. In part this is due to the inherent diffic…
Family enterprise in the Baltic estate economy
During the nineteenth century, the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire exhibited characteristics of economic change typical of Eastern European rural areas where the landed estate and an enserfed peasantry were dominant forces. Family enterprise, other than agricultural enterprise was rare, even among estate owners. The number of estate “manufactories” remained small throughout the first half of the century, and estate owners discouraged peasa…
Introduction
Among the questions in the field of family history that require more systematic attention is the complex interaction between families and the small-scale economic institutions in which their member
Patrilines, surnames, and family identity
The Imperial decrees emancipating the serfs of the Russian Baltic provinces (1816–1820) included the requirement that serfs, who would now become free peasants and obtain legal standing, have both a first name and a surname, the latter of their own choosing. The article examines the process through which Baltic peasants obtained surnames and analyzes the choices they made. In the Pinkenhof estate, in the province of Livland, emancipated serfs mos…
Borders, ethnicity, and demographic patterns in the Russian Baltic provinces in the late nineteenth century
In his pioneering and now classic 1953 study, Nationalism and social communication , Karl Deutsch laid out a social science agenda for the study of national consciousness in contemporary and historic populations. Central to this agenda was communication, and central to communication was language: ‘If we knew how to compare and measure the ability of groups and cultures to transmit information, we might gain a better understanding of their behavio…
Looking backward
Intergenerational transfers of headships over the life course in an Eastern European peasant community, 1782–1850
Research on intergenerational transfers of valued goods has focused mostly on historical western Europe and its propertied peasantry. This article analyzes the population of an estate (Pinkenhof) in the Russian Baltic province of Livland—one of the lands of the so-called “second serfdom”—during the nineteenth century, before and after the emancipation of serfs. Here peasants did not own land; the most valued good that peasant families had to bequ…
The Consolidation of Democracy in East-Central Europe
Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post-communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. The authors analyse the patterns of post-communist democratization in these countries, paying particular attention to the process of party formation, electoral politics, the growth of civil society, and the impact of eco…
Fertility and Culture in Eastern Europe
The Baltic World 1772-1993
Part One: The Age of Empire: Sturm und Drang-The Baltic in an Age of Revolution, 1772-1815 Stormclouds, the revolutionary nineties, The spread of war, From Tilsit to Eidsvoll. The Baltic in 1800: Land and people- images and reality, Estates and classes, Reforming the common people. States and Unions-1815 to the Revolutions of 1848: Constitutions of diverse kinds, Government and society 1830 - 1848, Europe's policeman. The Era of Nationalism: Poin…
The Latvians
"This is the first English-language volume that brings the history of Latvia to the threshold of the twenty-first century. Until the reestablishment of Latvian independence in 1991, Soviet dominance served for nearly fifty years to hinder publication of any complete and objective historical record of the region. Andrejs Plakans now places the evolution and formation of the Latvian nation in a balanced, historical framework that stretches from the…
The Latvians
"This is the first English-language volume that brings the history of Latvia to the threshold of the twenty-first century. Until the reestablishment of Latvian independence in 1991, Soviet dominance served for nearly fifty years to hinder publication of any complete and objective historical record of the region. Andrejs Plakans now places the evolution and formation of the Latvian nation in a balanced, historical framework that stretches from the…
Social Networks, Kinship, and Community in Eastern Europe
Social Networks, Kinship, and Community in Eastern Europe How people in the past used and valued kinship in their daily lives is one of the most important and most elusive matters in contemporary social history. The largest issue is the character of community life and how that character changed in the temporally imprecise, yet unmistakable, transition from the traditional to the modern world. Intimately related to this central question are others…
Identifying Kinfolk Beyond the Household
Peasant Farmsteads and Households in the Baltic Littoral, 1797
Although the empirical basis for the comparative study of the history of European family life is expanding, there remain extensive areas of Eastern Europe about which almost nothing is known. This situation weakens all generalizations about Europe as a whole, especially since those localities of Eastern Europe from which family data are available reveal formations very different from what obtains in the West. The most ambitious comparative study …
The demographic transition in the Baltic provinces and Finland
Fertility and Culture in Eastern Europe
Seigneurial Authority and Peasant Family Life
in the Eighteenth Century In those Eastern European areas where, by the eighteenth century, the rural economy had come to be dominated by large serf estates, analysis of the organization of peasant domestic groups immediately runs into the problem of the authority of the seigneur. If Gutswirtschaft landowners had the authority to interfere in the formation, composition, and development of rural domestic groups, and if they exercised that authorit…
Peasants, Intellectuals, and Nationalism in the Russian Baltic Provinces, 1820-90
Latvia
Nearly two decades after renewed independence, the population of Latvia is quite unhappy with the status quo. The number of inhabitants in the country continues to decline due to outmigration and a low fertility level; the international image of the country is believed by Latvians to be ambiguous at best, negative at worst; there is widespread disillusionment with the new political elite, which is thought to be incompetent as well as corrupt; the…
Ties of Kinship and Kinship Roles in an Historical Eastern European Peasant Community
Households and kinship networks
In Household and Family in Past Time (1972) Peter Laslett explicitly differentiated the study of kin relations within the domestic group from the study of those beyond it. Yet in subsequent decades the latter project – the conceptualization of the domestic group within the larger kin group – has not proceeded very far, even though it can easily be pictured as the ‘next step’ in micro-structural research. In part this is due to the inherent diffic…
The Estonian and Latvian national movements
Kinship in the Past
Migration, households, and agrarian reform in the Baltic provinces of Russia
Earlier research has shown that migration flows affect household size and that these measures in turn are affected by local and regional legal systems that seek to regulate migration. This article explores these connections in those areas of the 19th century Russian Baltic provinces of Livland and Kurland that in the 20th century became the country of Latvia. Different data bases are used to link variables during the decades after the agrarian re…
The 1881 census in the Russian Baltic provinces
The 1881 census of the Russian Baltic provinces of Livland, Estland, and Kurland was the first modern-type systematic population enumeration in the Baltic area. It had been preceded by enumerations of other kinds—land cadastres that included aggregate population counts (during Swedish control of the area) in the 17th century, and fiscal revisions (during Russian control of the area) that did list residents by name but did not follow any principle…
Looking backward
Intergenerational transfers of headships over the life course in an Eastern European peasant community, 1782–1850
Research on intergenerational transfers of valued goods has focused mostly on historical western Europe and its propertied peasantry. This article analyzes the population of an estate (Pinkenhof) in the Russian Baltic province of Livland—one of the lands of the so-called “second serfdom”—during the nineteenth century, before and after the emancipation of serfs. Here peasants did not own land; the most valued good that peasant families had to bequ…
The Commission of Historians in Latvia
In 1999, the President of Latvia, Guntis Ulmanis, created a Commission of Historians and charged it with investigating the nature and consequences for Latvians and Latvia of the two occupations (the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany) the country experienced during the years of World War Two and afterwards. Special focus was to be direct to the Holocaust and to the multiple forms of repression practiced by the Soviet Communist regime. The Commission c…
Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral
The social history of coresidence arrangements in the Latvian region suggests that forms of cohabitation without marriage were present in the Latvian population since the eighteenth century when empirical evidence became available. Before the twentieth century, however, these forms remained marginal and seldom involved choice. The subject of severe criticism until the 1960s–1970s, such forms become more widespread thereafter as the Latvian popula…
Minority nationalities in the Russian Baltic provinces
The population of the Russian Baltic provinces during the second half of the nineteenth century experiences substantial growth and differentiation, though these dynamics are difficult to describe precisely because of the paucity of census data. The first Imperial census took place only in 1897; for earlier periods, provincial censuses have to be relied upon. The 1881 census of the Baltic provinces shows the difficulty of analyzing minority demogr…
Family enterprise in the Baltic estate economy
During the nineteenth century, the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire exhibited characteristics of economic change typical of Eastern European rural areas where the landed estate and an enserfed peasantry were dominant forces. Family enterprise, other than agricultural enterprise was rare, even among estate owners. The number of estate “manufactories” remained small throughout the first half of the century, and estate owners discouraged peasa…
European Population. I. Country Analysis
Family and economy in an early-nineteenth-century Baltic serf estate
Cet essai étudie le rapport entre la vie familiale et la corvée au domaine foncier à servage de Pinkenhof, dans la province de Livonie de la Russie balte au cours des deux premières décades du 19ème siècle. Une analyse du type d'obligations de travail agricole et comment elles sont adaptées par les paysans nous révèle des activités à peu prés les mêmes autant par les propriétaries que par les serfs. Cette etude semble indiquer d'abord que les his…
Latvia's return to independence
(1991). Latvia's return to independence. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 259-266
Interaction Between the Household and the Kin Group in the Eastern European Past
The households of traditional eastern Europe were frequently complex, containing a variety of kin beyond the members of the head's conjugal family unit. In these households, the domain of family roles was fused with the domain of kin roles. The interaction between the household and the kin group therefore means, in these coresidential units, the interaction of different role domains, and to understand this interaction we have to know more about t…
Peasants, Intellectuals, and Nationalism in the Russian Baltic Provinces, 1820-90
Seigneurial Authority and Peasant Family Life
in the Eighteenth Century In those Eastern European areas where, by the eighteenth century, the rural economy had come to be dominated by large serf estates, analysis of the organization of peasant domestic groups immediately runs into the problem of the authority of the seigneur. If Gutswirtschaft landowners had the authority to interfere in the formation, composition, and development of rural domestic groups, and if they exercised that authorit…
Peasant Farmsteads and Households in the Baltic Littoral, 1797
Although the empirical basis for the comparative study of the history of European family life is expanding, there remain extensive areas of Eastern Europe about which almost nothing is known. This situation weakens all generalizations about Europe as a whole, especially since those localities of Eastern Europe from which family data are available reveal formations very different from what obtains in the West. The most ambitious comparative study …
Identifying Kinfolk Beyond the Household
Communal Families in the Balkans
Social Change in a Peripheral Society
Chance and Change
Part Three. The Latvians
Latvian belletristic writing as a source for social history, 1850–1900
Anthropology, History, and the European Joint Family
Ties of Kinship and Kinship Roles in an Historical Eastern European Peasant Community
The familial contexts of early childhood in Baltic serf society
The Baltic Provinces: some comparisons By the end of the eighteenth century a series of five tax censuses carried out by the government of the Russian Empire had created for later generations of social historians a vast body of primary sources in the form of household lists. These ‘revisions of souls’ (Russ. revizskie skazki ), as they were called, contained the names of taxpayitig Russians, as well as those of a host of other peoples annexed by …
The European Family
The social history of the European family from the Middle Ages to the present is examined with an emphasis on data derived from research on Central Europe. It is argued that there has been a gradual transformation of the family from a unit characterized by patriarchy to one essentially a partnership of relatively independent individuals with overlapping roles. The authors begin with the family as a concept and with the various types of familial s…
The demographic transition in the Baltic provinces and Finland
Transylvanian Villagers
History and Anthropology
Kinship in the Past
Kinship in the Past
The Study of Kinship in Modernizing Europe
Proletarianization and Family History.David Levine
Kinship in the Past
Kinship in the past
Interaction Between the Household and the Kin Group in the Eastern European Past
The households of traditional eastern Europe were frequently complex, containing a variety of kin beyond the members of the head's conjugal family unit. In these households, the domain of family roles was fused with the domain of kin roles. The interaction between the household and the kin group therefore means, in these coresidential units, the interaction of different role domains, and to understand this interaction we have to know more about t…
The Estonian and Latvian national movements
Latvia's return to independence
(1991). Latvia's return to independence. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 259-266
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