What to read after Lithuania?

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 At the European Crossroads: Lithuania's Historical Roots -- The Land -- The People -- Birth of a Nation -- Geopolitics and Independence -- Notes -- 2 A Taste of Independence, 1918-1940 -- Problems of Heritage: Foreign and Domestic -- Democracy: Multiparty Assembly Model -- The Era of Authoritarian Rule -- Lithuanian Communism -- Minorities in Politics and Society -- Economic Development, 1920-1930 -- Notes -- 3 Foreign Rule: Invasion from the East -- Stalin, Hitler, and Lithuania -- The Synthetic Revolution and Annexation -- The Insurrection and the Nazi Retrenchment -- Stalin Returns to Lithuania -- The Politics of Communism -- Politics and Economy -- Politics and Society -- Notes -- 4 Resistance, Survival, and Reform -- The Partisan War -- The Dissident Movement -- The Struggle for Cultural Survival -- Glasnost' Comes to Lithuania -- The Emergence of Civil Society and Saudis -- The Lithuanian Freedom League -- Yedinstvo: The Russian and Polish Minorities -- The Catholic Church -- Notes -- 5 S[omitted]j[omitted] dis and the Party: The March Toward Independence -- The Reformers Rally the Masses -- The Party Fights Back -- The Confrontation and the Fal lof Party Leaders -- The Honeymoon and the Break -- Damage Control by Brazauskas and the Rise of Landsbergis -- The Struggle Intensifies: The Electoral Battlefield -- The Electoral Lesson: The Party Cooperates -- The Dialectics of Declaring Independence -- The Communists Divorce Moscow -- The Declaration of Independence -- Notes -- 6 Between the Kremlin and the West: Securing Independence -- The Kremlin's Response -- Western Powers Between Gorbachev and Lithuania -- Reaffirmation of the Goals of Independence and Democracy -- Notes -- 7 New Beginnings: The Politics of Transition