AABS Dissertation Grant Report
Concepts of a Latvian-Lithuanian State: Dissertation Grant Report from James Montgomery Baxenfield The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) is pleased to recognise...
Double Book Review: The Reluctant Exiles (2021) by Andrejs Plakans, and Estonia as a Captive Nation (2021) by Pauli Heikkilä.
“As a direct result of the Soviet occupations of the Baltic states during the Second World War, more than half a million Estonians, Latvians, and...
The Curious Case of Aistija (2024)
“The nascent Aistijan movement centred around the idea of establishing a Latvian–Lithuanian state following the Second World War. This article surveys the background of the...
A Place Between Nations (2024)
“Deterministic tendencies in history writing favour established states. However, more states have been proposed than created. The idea of a Latvian-Lithuanian state, often depicted as...
Early Online: The Curious Case of Aistija (2024)
“The nascent Aistijan movement centred around the idea of establishing a Latvian–Lithuanian state following the Second World War. This article surveys the background of the...
Precarious Roads to Recognition (2022)
“This article introduces the special issue marking the centenary of de jure recognition extended to the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian governments by the United States...
Baltic Ways Podcast: “Latvian-Lithuanian Connections from Morta to Modernity”
Baltic Ways, Ep. 17: Latvian-Lithuanian Connections from Morta to Modernity: An interview with James Montgomery Baxenfield “How have Latvian and Lithuanian histories intertwined over the last...
Book Review: Defining Latvia (2022), edited by Michael Loader, Siobhán Hearne, and Matthew Kott.
“This book emerges from a conference – ‘Latvia at Crossroads: The Centenary of the Latvian State’ – held at Uppsala University in October 2018 to...
Book Review: An illustrated history of Lithuania, Vol. 1 (2022), by Ignas Kapleris
“In his introduction, Ignas Kapleris remarks that ‘We live in the 21st century surrounded by modern digital technologies that are changing the conventional understanding of...
Dissertation Grant from AABS
Congratulations to James Montgomery Baxenfield, recipient of the 2023–2024 Dissertation Grant for Graduate Students The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) awarded James...