The War on Estonia's Forests: A Village Without Leaves
“Let us be masters in our own country, not avaricious colonists, who leave a ravaged country behind them…” the late Estonian president, Lennart Meri, said in a speech on 24…Continue Reading →
The Third Star Shining: Making Culture in Latgalian
by Will Mawhood Travel much in the small towns and countryside of Latvia’s lake-splashed eastern borderlands, and you’ll almost definitely hear a Baltic-sounding language that isn’t quite Latvian – at…Continue 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 →