Daina Bleiere, Ilgvars Butulis, Inesis Feldmanis, Aivars Stranga, Antonijs Zunda “Latvia Toward 100 Years”

Like the other countries and nations of Europe, Latvia and Latvians experienced to the full all of the trends — both negative and positive — that characterized the continent’s development, but more than most, Latvia and Latvians have seen their history written by others. And as a result, that history is full of willful distortions and myths that often have kept Latvians themselves as well as others from understanding their past and consequently themselves and prevented others from understanding both the problems and dilemmas Latvians have faced and the ways in which they have sought to solve them