The Baltic Republics: The Past, the Present, the Future

This is a new instalment in the Playlist: Issues of Contemporary Politics. Therea re also 12 other playlists: Ukraine war, Russia Under the Communist Regime, Russian History, AP European History and others. Here I discuss primarily the post-Soviet trends in the development of the Baltic republics. Behind the facade of prosperity and democracy is hidden discrimination of large ethnic Russian minorities, ban of Russian language schools, but most disturbing for the future of these countries is the catastrophic demographic trends which are on track to lead to halving the population by 2050. What decicions and policies were chosen that may explain this? And finally, is hostility to Russia truly in the national interest of these countries? was born in Leningrad USSR, and as a 20 year old came to the United States. He got his PhD from Princeton and served as a Associate Professor of Soviet History at Harvard University. He is the author of many books on Soviet History, among them The Menshviks After October, Behind the Frontlines of the Civil War, Russia After Lenin and his latest, featured in this video: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its Identiry (London: Routledge 2024) All of these books are avilable on Amazon. For my viewers in Russia I can add that my one book appared in Russian in Russia: Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofa. You can buy it in . or Wildberries.