Book Review: Lithuania (2025), by Richard Butterwick

“Founded in 1969, Hurst has a long history of publishing books about the Baltic states. The English translation of Georg von Rauch’s The History of the Baltic States (1974), for example, filled a significant gap in Western scholarship, though Lithuanians received noticeably less attention than Estonians and Latvians (and Baltic Germans). As Richard Butterwick notes in his Lithuania: A History – Lithuania requires a different chronological frame than ‘volumes about Latvia and Estonia, which focus chiefly on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ (12)…“

Read the review in the Journal of Baltic Studies, Vol. 56, No. 4 (2025), pp. 855−858: