War, Revolution, and Governance

This edited collection is a tribute to the history of the twentieth-century Baltic region; an area, which, as the editors say, was ‘visited by practically every calamity the modem era had to offer’ (p. vii). The stated ambition of the editors, Lazar Fleishman and Amir Weiner, has been to complement the already existing outside perspectives on Baltic history with, as they say, a view ‘from within’ (p. vii); bringing together historians from the three Baltic countries themselves. While this is not particularly rare (the Journal of Baltic Studies exists, after all), this new volume certainly makes a welcome contribution to historical research on the Baltics. The articles included are based on the presentations at an international conference held at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution Library in October 2014. Indeed, many of the Baltic scholars included here have well established connections to Stanford or the Hoover Archives; a testimony to successful network-building at both institutions with a focus on Baltic history. Currently, an effort is underway on the initiative of Stanford Libraries to create an even stronger focus on Baltic studies, so more similar publications are perhaps to be expected in the future

Ancient history · Political science · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History