Taking Legitimacy to Exile
Baltic Orthodox Churches and the Interpretation of the Concept of Legal Continuity during and after the Soviet Occupation of the Baltic States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5707296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Priit Rohtmets (0009-0000-6496-590X, University of Tartu, corresponding author), Valdis Tēraudkalns (0000-0003-2367-2398, University of Tartu) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 633-665 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Church and State (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-969X • E-ISSN: 2040-4867 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcs/csv034 |
| OpenAlex | W2277628004 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Three Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—regained their independence in 1991. Established in 1918, the states decided to restore their de facto independence in 1991, declaring the years from 1940 to 1991 as a period of occupation.1 After Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) signed the Treaty of Nonaggression (i.e., the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) and its secret protocols in 1939, which gave the USSR freedom to act in Eastern Europe, including the Baltic states, the USSR annexed and occupied three independent states in 1940. In 1944, after a three-year period of German occupation, the states were again occupied by the USSR. Although de facto occupied, the states remained de jure independent.2 According to international law, the USSR was considered an aggressor. Therefore, Baltic embassies in countries that had not recognized the occupation (e.g., the United States and the United Kingdom) continued their work until 1991.3 Thousands of Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians fled to the West in fear of mass repressions and deportations to Russia.4
De facto · Economic history · Independence (probability theory) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Latvian · Legitimacy · Lithuanian · Political science · Treaty · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |