CONTENTS

• List of maps and charts
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART ONE: Awakening
• 1. Against the Odds
• 2. War, Revolution and Independence
• PART TWO: States of Europe 1918–40
• 3. Building New States
• 4. The Diplomacy of Survival
• 5. The Economics of Survival
• 6. Lives of the Hunted
• PART THREE: Eclipse 1940-85
• 7. Casualties of War
• 8. Soviet Winter
• PART FOUR: Reawakening
• 9. Baltic Spring
• 10. Planning to Leave
• PART FIVE: Conclusion
• 11. A European Necessity?
• Postscript
• Bibliographical Essay
• Maps
• Charts
• Index

John Hiden is Professor of Modern European History and Director of the Baltic Research Unit at the University of Bradford. He gained his doctorate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (London University) and taught at the University of Aberdeen for 8 years before moving to Bradford in 1979.
Patrick Salmon has been a Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne since 1981 after gaining his doctorate at the University of Cambridge.