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Skylarks and Rebels

A Memoir about the Soviet Russian Occupation of Latvia, Life in a Totalitarian State, and Freedom
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538 Seiten
Englisch
ibidemerschienen am30.08.2017
Skylarks and Rebels is a story about Latvias fate in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima, a Latvian American who chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, Latvia, which in the 1980s languished behind the Soviet Iron Curtain. In writing about her own experiences in a totalitarian state, Soviet-occupied Latvia, Laima delves into her familys past to understand what happened to her fatherland and its people during and after World War II. She also pays tribute to some of Latvias remarkable people of integrity who risked their lives to oppose the mindless ideology of the brutal and destructive Soviet state.mehr
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KlappentextSkylarks and Rebels is a story about Latvias fate in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima, a Latvian American who chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, Latvia, which in the 1980s languished behind the Soviet Iron Curtain. In writing about her own experiences in a totalitarian state, Soviet-occupied Latvia, Laima delves into her familys past to understand what happened to her fatherland and its people during and after World War II. She also pays tribute to some of Latvias remarkable people of integrity who risked their lives to oppose the mindless ideology of the brutal and destructive Soviet state.
Zusatztext"Rita Laima?s new memoir, Skylarks & Rebels, chronicles her unique personal story, and in so doing, captures the trajectory of Latvian history and grapples with the crises of identity faced by all exiles and émigrés. Laima was born in the United States to Latvian parents who were forced to flee their country?s postwar Soviet occupation, but she returned to Latvia as a young adult in the 1980s out of a sense of national obligation and cultural belonging. She raised her children in Soviet Latvia during the period of Latvia?s liberation and the Soviet collapse. Her unique vantage point?between America and Latvia, between Soviet totalitarianism and the tenuous but exciting freedom of post-Soviet Latvia?makes her story worth studying as a window into the struggle for identity and belonging that defines the lives and culture of exiles and émigrés in America."?Naphtali Rivkin on http://blog.victimsofcommunism.org
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ISBN/GTIN978-3-8382-0854-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum30.08.2017
ReiheEdition Noema
Seiten538 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht1048 g
Artikel-Nr.41945716
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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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." -Marti s Mintaurs, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy, University of Latvia, Rigamehr

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Rita Laima is a published writer, translator, and children's book illustrator. Born in the United States to the children of refugees who settled in New Jersey, Laima was raised biculturally, speaking Latvian at home. After studying art at Parsons School of Design in New York City, she traveled to Latvia in 1982 and lived there for 17 years. During that time, she experienced life under Soviet communism, the Soviet Union's efforts to russify her ancestral country, Latvia's National Awakening, and its long-awaited independence from the USSR in 1991. Rita Laima currently lives in the Washington, DC area.
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