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East Prussia 2.0: Persistent regions, rising nations
European Economic ReviewIn this paper, we examine the economic and political effects of the breakup of East Prussia into what is today Poland, Russia and Lithuania. We explore the dissolution of imperial regions into the boundaries of modern states, adding new insights to the research on the imperial legacies.
Theocharis N Grigoriadis
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There is a Prussian spirit here, but it smells of Russia...
Проект Байкал, 2023 After the Great Patriotic War, the Russian settlers were going to build their own world on the ruins of Königsberg and other cities in East Prussia, from where the Germans were deported in 1947.
Елена Багина
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Juozas Narūnavičius–Naronskis, a mathematician and cartographer (1610–1678)
Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, 2004 Juozas Narūnavičius-Naronskis was Eques Lituanus. He distinguished himself by cartographing the estates of Jonušas Radvila and he has drawn a map of Biržai principality. In 1659, he wrote the works Arithmetica, Geometria, and Architectura militaris. The
Evaldas Gečiauskas
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Women in the Multiple Field of Tension: Everyday Wartime Life in East Prussia
Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2021 The article analyses the everyday life of civilians in East Prussia during the Second World War, with a special focus on the Klaipėda (Memel) region, a former territory of Lithuania, which was annexed by the German Reich in March 1939.
Ruth Leiserowitz
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On the establishment and early activity of the Soviet consulate in Königsberg (1923—1925) [PDF]
Baltic Region, 2012 This article analyses the reasons behind the restoration of diplomatic relations between Russia and Germany after World War I, as well as the fundamental differences in the performance of Russian imperial and Soviet consular missions in East Prussia.
Kostyashov Yuri
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Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2022 This paper is a commentary to W. Pohorecki’s article devoted to Mazurians in East Prussia, published in 1932. The comments focus on information which is still of interest today (data on the status of Mazurians in the interwar period, identity issues ...
Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska
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SPECIALLY PROTECTED AREAS OF THE KALININGRAD REGION: CONTINUITY OR A NEW BEGINNING [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2020 The paper analyses the formation of Specially Protected Areas (SPAs) in the south-east of the Baltic region within the borders of modern Kaliningrad region over the last century.
Andrey V. LEVCHENKOV +1 more
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Financial Markets and Land Redistribution in 19th Century East Prussia
Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 2022 How did the emerging market for land in the 19th century influence land distribution in East Prussia? And how did land markets respond to the emergence of financial institutions that relied on land as collateral but also affected the ease and speed of ...
Wandschneider Kirsten
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Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2015 The paper is a keynote address to the conference ‘Contacts and Cultural Transfer in the Historical Region of East Prussia (1700–2000)’ that took place in Nida in September 2013.
Andreas Kossert
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