Skylarks and Rebels (ePub)
A Memoir about the Soviet Russian Occupation of Latvia, Life in a Totalitarian State, and Freedom
(Sprache: Englisch)
Skylarks and Rebels is a story about the fate of Latvia in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima. Laima, a Latvian-American, chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, which in the 1980s languished behind...
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Skylarks and Rebels is a story about the fate of Latvia in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima. Laima, a Latvian-American, chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, which in the 1980s languished behind the Iron Curtain. In writing about her own experiences in a totalitarian state, Soviet-occupied Latvia, Laima delves into her family's past to understand what happened to her fatherland and its people during and after World War II. She also pays tribute to some of Latvia's remarkable people of integrity who risked their lives to oppose the brutal and destructive Soviet state.
Autoren-Porträt von Rita Laima
Rita Laima
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rita Laima
- 2018, 1 Auflage, 542 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: ibidem
- ISBN-10: 3838268547
- ISBN-13: 9783838268545
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.02.2018
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“Rita Laima has written a unique memoir that explores the experiences of the Latvian exile community during the Soviet era and the situation of Latvians in their Soviet-occupied homeland in the 1980s, as well as during the first decade of independence beginning in 1991. The author’s strengths are her frankness and ability to draw conclusions. Laima describes how the post-World War II Latvian refugee’s mentality developed outside of Latvia, and how a young woman with the Free World’s mindset dealt with Soviet socialism and post-communist reality in Latvia. The author’s escapades are supplemented with historical background notes, which enable the reader to grasp the context of events of her time in Latvia (1982–1999). Laima had the courage and strength to confront her own inherited notions of the fatherland with Latvia’s real situation in the 1980s and 1990s. This memoir is not a nostalgic longing for the past but rather a truthful and sometimes harsh story about life in all its complexity and rich nuances, gleaned from the author’s personal experience.“—Mārtiņš Mintaurs, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy, University of Latvia, Rīga
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