TY - BOOK AU - Bergmane,Una TI - Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union T2 - Oxford Studies in Intl History Series SN - 9780197578353 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Unabhängigkeitsbewegung KW - Unabhängigkeit KW - Perestroika KW - Zerfall KW - Außenpolitik KW - Internationale Politik KW - Baltikum KW - Sowjetunion KW - USA KW - United States-Foreign relations-Soviet Union KW - Baltic States-Foreign relations KW - Fernzugriff KW - Electronic books N1 - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Cover Page -- Half Title -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Origins of the Baltic Question -- 2. "Have you not noticed our absence?": The Baltic Question during the Annus Mirabilis of 1989 -- 3. Building a New World Order?: The Lithuanian Crisis of Spring 1990 -- 4. The End of Perestroika?: The Baltic Quest for Visibility and the Soviet Crackdown -- 5. The Rise of the Republics, the Fall of the Center: The Baltic Exception and the Collapse of the USSR -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - In 1989 three Soviet republics--Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, known as Baltic countries--started a determined push for independence, risking to destabilize the Soviet Union and to derail international negotiations on German reunification. Politics of Uncertainty traces Soviet and American responses to Baltic claims for independence and, in doing so, sheds light on the end of the Cold War UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7193464 ER -