Storks and Larches: Looking for the Baltic Germans' Traces
British-born, Latvian-based writer Mike Collier's latest novel attempts to reconstruct a world that existed not too long agoContinue Reading →
The Latvian Operation: Stalin's Purge of the Old Bolsheviks
by Vincent Hunt Twenty years passed. Latvians held senior jobs in the Soviet regime in economic planning, the military, in the arts and in the security police. Their homeland was…Continue Reading →
“All Is Lost. I Am Chased by English”: How Estonia Got a Navy
In 1918, the Baltic was ablaze with a range of conflicting polities. All along the littoral, a plethora of factions staged a bloody and vicious conflict for control of the…Continue Reading →