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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Latvians"”.
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KALAMAZOO REVISITED: HERITAGE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AMONG LATVIANS IN NORTH AMERICA
… formation among two groups of North American Latvians. One is made up of 49 teenagers at Gaŗezers language camp in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The other comprises 25 parents, other adult Latvian speakers and camp staff members. I explore differences and similarities among them by age, gender and …
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A Subdued Palette of Subversion: Artistic Expression, Creativity, and Family Coping Strategies in Soviet Latvia
… Latvian community. The chapter reveals how many Latvians, who cared deeply about their identity and the independence of their country, employed subverting and at times conflicting strategies in order to preserve their cultural identity, and artistic creativity during Soviet rule. Chapter 3 …
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Prison Space, Social Control and Relationships in a Post-Soviet Women’s Prison
… worked through. This thesis will argue that for Latvians the collapse of the Soviet project meant not only transforming the socio-political economy, but has also led to the re-emergence of non-Soviet cultural traditions. The new political narratives tend to embrace a nationalistic and …
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Lost and Found: The Rediscovery of Lithuania in American Fiction
… for Lithuanians and their two Baltic neighbors, Latvians and Estonians, the end of the war also marked the end of their nationhood as a result of the repartitioning of the world by Stalin and Hitler, officially unrecognized but tacitly sanctioned by the leading Western countries. The ""cold war"" …