{"product_id":"back-to-the-motherland-repatriation-and-latvian-emigres-1955-1958","title":"Back to the motherland : repatriation and Latvian émigrés 1955-1958","description":"In the mid-1950s Latvian émigrés shared a remarkable experience:\nthey were the targets of a KGB operated repatriation campaign,\nwhich not only envisioned their repatriation to the Soviet Latvian\nhomeland, but also anticipated the destruction of their émigré\nsociety as they knew it.\nThe purpose of this thesis is to analyze this repatriation campaign\nand the émigré Latvian reactions to it. By looking at the activities\nof the Committee For Return to the Motherland in East Berlin, the\ncontents of the repatriation newspaper Par atgriešanos Dzimtenē\n(For Return to the Motherland), and the reactions to the campaign\nin contemporary émigré press, this study shows how highly\ndeveloped strategies and tactics were implemented in order to elicit\ncertain behaviors from émigrés, and how émigrés advanced their\nown counter-strategies to offset the effects of the campaign.\nThis thesis concludes that in spite of Soviet superiority in\norganization and resources, a small and internally divided\ncommunity could withstand the concerted efforts of Soviet\npropaganda if the group’s unified sense of mission was sufficiently\nstrong.","brand":"Stockholms universitet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32436164755556,"sku":"9789174479904","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/back-to-the-motherland-repatriation-and-latvian-emigres-1955-1958","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}