LITHUANIA IN CRISIS. NATIONALISM TO COMMUNISM 1939-1940

Bloomington:Indiana University Press. (1972). 1st edition. xxi+293pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good, clean condition inside and out. The dust jacket is slightly soiled with light wear along edges small tears along edges. (1 to lower edge of front panel and 2 more along the rear gutter, at both top and bottom. Overall a very good copy with a near very good dust jacket. *"Presents a scholarly, thorough, and absorbing study of what is probably the most fateful chapter in the life of the Lithuanian nation: the disappearance of its short-lived second period of national independence during the years 1926-1939 and its absorption into the Soviet Union in 1940. Developments in Lithuania during these years illuminate many events throughout Eastern Europe in the interval between the first and second World Wars."...dj