Baltic States And The Great Powers

This is the first complete account of the diplomatic relations and military steps leading to Estonia''s, Latvia''s, and Lithuania''s forcible absorption into the USSR in 1940. David Crowe—making use of recently opened archival sources—traces the Baltic states'' relations with the Soviet Union, Germany, Poland, Great Britian, France and with one another from 1917-1940. He starts with an overview of...