Table of Contents

Historical background; the war years, 1940-1945; postwar stalinism, 1945-1953; the re-emergence of national cultures, 1954-1968; centralization and westernization, 1968-1980; the apogee of stagnation, 1980-1986; the national renaissances, 1987-1990; the Kaliningrad Oblast - a new Baltic land?