The Baltics
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Robert Frost reveals a neglected influence on his reforms. |
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S.M. Toyne investigates how, from earliest times, the migration of the herring has exercised an important influence on the history of the peoples living around the North Sea and the Baltic. Published in History Today, Volume: 2 Issue: 10, 1952
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 Hal Wert tells the story of the two Lithuanian-American aviators, Steponas Darius and Stanley Girenas, whose attempt to bring honour to the land of their birth ended tragically in July 1933. |
 Neil Taylor discusses how political change has left its mark on the Latvian capital’s Town Hall Square. |
 The mutual defence treaty between Communist states was signed on May 14th, 1955. |
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What did Hitler mean by Lebensraum? Did he attempt to translate theory into reality? Martyn Housden 'unpacks' the term and puts it into historical context. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev's period as President of the Soviet Union, 1985-91, was truly revolutionary. But Steven Morewood argues that he failed to understand or control the forces he unleashed. |
 Robert Frost reveals a neglected influence on his reforms. |
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Merlin Waterson looks at how the newly-independent Estonia is recovering its heritage. |
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Clare Thomson on the pace of change in the Baltic States. |
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It was not only the Jews who fled from Tsarist persecution in the late 19th century. Immigrants from Lithuania came to Scotland en route for the United States and many stayed. |
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