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Author Plakans, Andrejs

Title The reluctant exiles : Latvians in the west after World War II / Andrejs Plakans
Published Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, MA : Schöningh, an imprint of Brill, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (721 pages)
Series On the Boundary of Two Worlds ; volume 45
On the boundary of two worlds ; 45
Summary The book is a group biography of the 175,000+ Latvians who fled their homeland during the final year of World War II (1944-45), lived until 1951 as refugees in Sweden and Germany, and then dispersed to other countries throughout the world. The post-1945 history of these Latvians includes a description of their lives in 'displaced person' camps in post-war Germany, dispersion in the 1949-1951 years, resettlement in new host countries in Europe and overseas, strategies of adaptation to the new circumstances, organizational efforts, acculturation and assimilation, measures of cultural and linguistic preservation, renewal of contacts with the old homeland, generational change and disagreements, political mobilization, changes in personal and group identity, and, after 1991, the inclusion by the Latvian government of the descendants of this post-war population into a formally designated 'Latvian diaspora'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 05, 2021)
Subject Latvians -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Latvia -- Biography
Refugees.
Latvians.
Latvia.
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783657760282
3657760288
9783506760289
3506760289
Other Titles Latvians in the West after World War II