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ALFRED ERICH SENN Lithuania 1940. Revolution from Above. Editions Rodopi B.V. Amsterdam, New York, NY 2007. 290 S. = On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, 9.
In his monograph, Prof. Alfred Erich Senn reconstructs the last years of the modern Lithuanian state: from the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which constituted the background for the Red Army occupation of Lithuania, until the formal annexation of Lithuania by the USSR. This well-known story is told originally and interestingly. The author uses a lot of historical literature and plenty of new materials from Lithuanian, Russian, American and Latvian archives.
The author had been provoked to make this research by the assertion of officials that Lithuania became a part of the USSR not by...