Journal of Baltic Studies, Volume 55, Issue 2 (2024)

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Conscription and social transformations: Estonia between security needs and social expectations
Eleri Lillemäe, Kairi Kasearu & Eyal Ben-Ari
Pages: 251-270
Published online: 15 May 2023
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Lithuanians’ perception of terrorism: are Muslims “folk devils” for Lithuanians?
Gintarė Sereikaitė Motiejūnė
Pages: 271-289
Published online: 04 Jun 2023
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The new center of Vilnius: spatial transformation and challenges of genius loci
Almantas Samalavičius, Arnoldas Gabrėnas & Agnė Gabrėnienė
Pages: 291-308
Published online: 16 May 2023
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Cultural heritage as interpreted and practiced by young people in non-formal associations in Latvia
Inta Mieriņa
Pages: 309-326
Published online: 28 Apr 2023
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Various planes of retranslation: J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye in Russian and Latvian
Jānis Veckrācis
Pages: 327-349
Published online: 12 Jun 2023
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Special Section: “(Beyond) national identity in the Baltic countries: varieties, correlates, and takeaways” (Guest Editors: Marharyta Fabrykant, Ammon Cheskin, Anastassia Zabrodskaja)

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Boundary work in the UK: identity discourses and practices of Latvian migrants
Martins Kaprans
Pages: 351-370
Published online: 12 Feb 2024
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Unbearable “eastern European mentality:” the affective contradiction in the national belonging of Estonians with a migratory experience
Terje Toomistu, Aet Annist & Rein Murakas
Pages: 371-396
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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Beyond ethnocentric identity: understanding Orthodox communalities in Estonia
Irina Paert, Liina Eek & Andrei Sõtšov
Pages: 397-415
Published online: 08 Sep 2023
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“We” versus “others” in Estonian fiction: the question of national identity in the works of contemporary women writers
Elena Pavlova & Maili Vilson
Pages: 417-434
Published online: 17 Oct 2023
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When “branding” meets “building:” the consequences of nation branding on identity in Kyrgyzstan and Estonia
Abel Polese & Arzuu Sheranova
Pages: 435-457
Published online: 06 Nov 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
The shaken lands: violence and the crisis of governance in east central Europe, 1914–1923
edited by Tomas Balkelis and Andrea Griffante, Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2023, 258 pp., $139.00 (hbk), ISBN 979-8-88719-173-7; $150.00 (ebook), ISBN 979-8-88719-174-4
Robert Niebuhr
Pages: 459-461
Published online: 28 Mar 2024
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Fighting hunger, dealing with shortage: everyday life under occupation in World War II Europe
edited by Tatjana Tönsmeyer, Peter Haslinger, Włodzimierz Borodziej, Stefan Martens, and Irina Sherbakova, Leiden, Brill, 2021, 2 vols. cxv+1,374 pp., €249.00 (hbk, set), ISBN 978-90-04-44824-7, €249.00 (ebook), ISBN 978-90-04-46184-0
Olaf Mertelsmann
Pages: 461-463
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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The road of slaughter: the Latvian 15th SS division in Pomerania, January–March 1945
by Vince Hunt, Warwick, Helion, 2023, 448 pp., £35.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-80451-259-3
Timothy Heck
Pages: 463-466
Published online: 01 Apr 2024
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Notes from the valley of slaughter: a memoir from the ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania
by Aharon Pick, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2023, 320 pp., $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-253-06557-5 (hbk); $36.00 (pbk and ebook), 978-0-253-06558-2 (pbk), 978-0-253-06560-5 (ebook)
Dovilė Budrytė
Pages: 466-468
Published online: 28 Mar 2024
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Dviejų pasaulių sandūroje
by Stasys Šalkauskis, Vilnius, Valstybingumo studijų centras, 2022, 256 pp., €10.99, ISBN 978-609-8272-12-3
Dainius Genys
Pages: 468-471
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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Goodbye eastern Europe: an intimate history of a divided land
by Jacob Mikanowski, London, Oneworld, 2023, 375 pp., £22.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-86154-259-8
Brent McKenzie
Pages: 471-472
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Books Received List

List of Books Received and Recent Publications
Pages: 473-476
Published online: 21 May 2024
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