| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 472 pages) : illustrations |
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desLibris. Books collection
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| Contents |
1. Wunderkind in Reborn Latvia: Background, Education, and Civil Service Career, 1908-1938 -- 2. 'The Most Active and Influential Member of the Cabinet': Minister of Finance, 1938-1939 -- 3. 'Better to Die Standing Up Than to Keep on Living on Your Knees': War, Resignation, and Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 -- 4. 'Elected to Lead and Manage Latvian National Affairs': The Janus Face of Collaboration, July 1941 to November 1942 -- 5. 'Made No Bones about His Antipathy to the German Regime': The Janus Face of Resistance, November 1942 to May 1945 -- 6. 'I Had Committed All My Heart and My Efforts to Latvian Exiles': Refugee Politics, 1945-1948 -- 7. 'Starting Anew Like Our Fathers Did after the First World War': Immigrant in Canada, 1948-1950 -- 8. 'Develop of Perish': The Challenges of Newfoundland, 1950-1955 -- 9. 'The Past, Instead of Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself': The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954 |
| Summary |
"Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring is more the stuff of fiction than history. Between 1938, at age 29, and his ironic downfall in the safe haven of Canada, he was a finance minister of pre-war Latvia, a government official during the Soviet invasion, a shrewd collaborator under the Nazi occupation, then, a friend to the Allies, a spokesman for Latvian POW and displaced persons, and an adviser to the government of Canada |
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In this first serious biography of Alfred Valdmanis, historian Gerhard Bassler casts the story of this political manipulator and chameleon in new terms: the often tragic consequences of the will to survive."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-456) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Valdmanis, Alfred, 1908-1970.
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| SUBJECT |
Valdmanis, Alfred, 1908-1970 fast |
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Newfoundland and Labrador Corporation -- Biography
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Newfoundland and Labrador Corporation fast |
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Political corruption -- Newfoundland and Labrador
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Latvians -- Canada -- Biography
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Finance ministers -- Latvia -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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Finance ministers
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Economic policy
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Latvians
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Political corruption
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| SUBJECT |
Latvia -- History -- 1918-1940. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075005
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Latvia -- History -- 1940-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075007
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Economic policy
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Canada
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Latvia
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
00269742 |
| ISBN |
9781442670747 |
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1442670746 |
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1282036912 |
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9781282036918 |
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9786612036910 |
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6612036915 |
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