Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Maps Introduction Autobiographical Note Note on Names and Spellings 1 Land and Peoples 2 Surviving the Centuries: Baltic History 3 Independence Won and Lost 1914-40 4 The Troglodyte International: 'Me Soviet Impact in the Baltic 5 Imagined Nations: Cycles of Cultural Rebirth 6 Lost Atiantises: The Half-Forgotten Nationalities of the Baltic 7 The Baltic Russians 8 The independence Movements and their Successors, 1987-92 9 The Creation of the New States Conclusion Appendix 1: Chronology, 3500 BC - 1985 AD Appendix 2: Chronology, 19851992 Appendix 3: Baltic Demography 1860-1992 Appendix 4: Baltic Economic Statistics Before the Fall Notes Index.