Latvia Through the Centuries

Limited edition of 3000 copies.
1. A Brief History of the Land & People of Latvia; 2. Struggle for Independence; 3. Latvia After the War of Liberation; 4. Coup & Authoritarian Rule; First Occupation of Latvia [War Between Finland & USSR; Russians Are Coming; Eastern Border Guards; Russian Attack on Maslenki & Smaili Border Guards; National Resistance Movement Against the Red Occupation; 14 June Deportations; Latvian Soldiers in the Red Army; Voluntary Latvian Rifle Regiments]; 6. Latvia in WW2 [Ostland; First Armed Latvian Units; Latvian Legion & Waffen SS Volunteers; 2nd Latvian Brigade; Formation of the 15th Division; Latvian Military Units in WWII; Security Police; Arajs Kommando; National Resistance Under German Occupation; Fortress Kurzeme; Kurelis Group; 15th Division in Germany; Attempt to Establish a Provisional Government]; 7. What Did the Latvian Legioneres Fight for; 8. After the Capitulation [Socialist Competition; National Partisans; Latvian Soldiers as Prisoners of the Allies; Latvian Freedom Cedelheim; Latvian Soldiers in Allied Labour & Guard Units; Refugees; Baltic University]; 9. Latvia in the USSR [British Diplomat’s Account of 1945; Post-War Period; Collectivisation of Agriculture; Deportations; Executive Power; Total Control by the Party Institutions; Administrative Apparatus; Russification; Khrushchev Era 1953-64; National Communism; Stagnation 1964-82; Education; Openness & Restructuring Gorbachev 1985-91; Economic Crisis; 3rd National Revival]; 10. Towards Independence [Gotland Song Festival; Only 150,000 Steps from Kurzeme; Baltic Peace & Freedom Cruise; Baltic Way; Soviet Army’s Occupation of the Baltic States; 1. Police Battalion ‘White Berets’; Development of RL HC Guard Service & RL Security Service; Arrest Warrant for A.Rubiks First Secretary of the Party; Establishing the Latvian Military Academy; National Guard]; 11. Latvia Since the Restoration of Independence in 1991