Richard Mole - The Baltic States From Soviet Union to the European Union

The Baltic States are unique in being the only member-states of the EU to have fought to regain their sovereignty from the Soviet Union, only then to cede it to Brussels in certain key areas. Similarly, no member-states have had to struggle as hard as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to preserve their identity after 50 years of Soviet nationality policy in the face of sub-state and supra-state challenges. The post-communist experience of the Baltic States thus allows us to examine debates about identity as a source of political power, the conditioning and constraining influence of identity discourses on social, political and economic change, and the orientation and outcome of their external relations. In particular, the book examines the impact of Russian and Soviet control of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Baltic independence movements of the late 1980s/early 1990s, the citizenship debates, relations with Russia vis--vis the withdrawal of the troops of the former Soviet Army, the drawing of the shared boundary and the rights of Russian-speaking minorities, and the efforts undertaken by the three Baltic States to rebuild themselves, modernize their economies, cope with the ensuing social changes and facilitate their accession to the EU and NATO.

Richard C. M. Mole is Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His research focuses on the relationship between identity, discourse and power in Central and Eastern Europe.

Series Editor:

Richard Sakwa, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent

Editorial Committee:

Julian Cooper, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham

Terry Cox, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow

Rosalind Marsh, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages,

University of Bath

David Moon, Department of History, University of Durham

Hilary Pilkington, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick

Graham Timmins, Department of Politics, University of Stirling

Stephen White, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow

Founding Editorial Committee Member:

George Blazyca, Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Paisley

This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies). The series comprises original, high-quality, research-level work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects

1. Ukraine s Foreign and Security Policy,

1991 2000

Roman Wolczuk

2. Political Parties in the Russian Regions

Derek S. Hutcheson

3. Local Communities and Post-

Communist Transformation

Edited by Simon Smith

4. Repression and Resistance in

Communist Europe

J.C. Sharman

5. Political Elites and the New Russia

Anton Steen

6. Dostoevsky and the Idea of Russianness

Sarah Hudspith

7. Performing Russia

Folk revival and Russian identity

Laura J. Olson

8. Russian Transformations

Edited by Leo McCann

9. Soviet Music and Society under Lenin

and Stalin

The baton and sickle

Edited by Neil Edmunds

10. State Building in Ukraine

The Ukranian parliament, 19902003

Sarah Whitmore

11. Defending Human Rights in Russia

Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and Human

Rights Commissioner, 19692003

Emma Gilligan

12. Small-Town Russia

Postcommunist livelihoods and

identities: a portrait of the intelligentsia

in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and

Zubtsov, 19992000

Anne White

13. Russian Society and the Orthodox

Church

Religion in Russia after communism

Zoe Knox

14. Russian Literary Culture in the

Camera Age

The word as image

Stephen Hutchings

15. Between Stalin and Hitler

Class war and race war on the Dvina,

194046

Geoffrey Swain

16. Literature in Post-Communist Russia

and Eastern Europe

The Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction

of the Changes 19881998

Rajendra A. Chitnis

17. The Legacy of Soviet Dissent

Dissidents, democratisation and radical

nationalism in Russia

Robert Horvath

18. Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations

of Literature, 1900 2001

Screening the word

Edited by Stephen Hutchings and Anat

Vernitski

19. Russia as a Great Power

Dimensions of security under Putin

Edited by Jakob Hedenskog,

Vilhelm Konnander, Bertil Nygren,

Ingmar Oldberg and Christer

Pursiainen

20. Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of

1940

Truth, justice and memory

George Sanford

21. Conscience, Dissent and Reform in

Soviet Russia

Philip Boobbyer

22. The Limits of Russian

Democratisation

Emergency powers and states of

emergency

Alexander N. Domrin

23. The Dilemmas of Destalinisation

A social and cultural history of reform

in the Khrushchev era

Edited by Polly Jones

24. News Media and Power in

Russia

Olessia Koltsova

25. Post-Soviet Civil Society

Democratization in Russia and the

Baltic States

Anders Uhlin

26. The Collapse of Communist Power in

Poland

Jacqueline Hayden

27. Television, Democracy and Elections

in Russia

Sarah Oates

28. Russian Constitutionalism

Historical and contemporary

development

Andrey N. Medushevsky

29. Late Stalinist Russia

Society between reconstruction and

reinvention

Edited by Juliane Frst

30. The Transformation of Urban Space

in Post-Soviet Russia

Konstantin Axenov, Isolde Brade and

Evgenij Bondarchuk

31. Western Intellectuals and the Soviet

Union, 1920

From Red Square to the Left Bank

Ludmila Stern

32. The Germans of the Soviet Union

Irina Mukhina

33. Re-constructing the Post-Soviet

Industrial Region

The Donbas in transition

Edited by Adam Swain

34. Chechnya Russia s War on

Terror

John Russell

35. The New Right in the New Europe

Czech transformation and right-wing

politics, 19892006

Sen Hanley

36. Democracy and Myth in Russia and

Eastern Europe

Edited by Alexander Wll and Harald

Wydra

37. Energy Dependency, Politics and

Corruptionin theFormerSovietUnion

Russias power, oligarchs profits and

Ukraines missing energy policy,

19952006

Margarita M. Balmaceda

38. Peopling the Russian Periphery

Borderland colonization in Eurasian

history

Edited by Nicholas B Breyfogle, Abby

Schrader and Willard Sunderland

39. Russian Legal Culture Before and

After Communism

Criminal justice, politics and the public

sphere

Frances Nethercott