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In Antanas Smetona and His Lithuania Alfonsas Eidintas recounts the life and times of one of the most important leaders of the Lithuanian national movement Antanas Smetona, the content of his authoritarian regime (1926-1940) and impact of his associates, who constructed the nationalist ideology, the economic progress, and the cultural life of independent Lithuania before the Soviet invasion of 1940.
Contents
Foreword by Martyn Housden
Most Important Dates
Translator's Preface
Abbreviations used in the Text and the Notes
Introduction
The Pupil Antanas Smetona and the Teacher Jonas Jablonskis
With Father Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas at Viltis
Petras Klimas - Between Smetona and Steponas Kairys
Smetona and the Lithuanian Monarchists
Smetona's Conflict with Juozas Gabrys-Paršaitis
Baron Stasys Šilingas and the President
"The Man of Greatest Compromise" - Ernestas Galvanauskas and Smetona
Jonas Lapėnas and the Tautininkai: Why the LTS did not Become a Party
Antanas Smetona and Foreign Diplomats
Smetona and Izidorius Tamošaitis: the Justification of the Coup
His Wife Sofija Chodakuskaitė -Smetonienė
The Smetona-Voldemaras Tandem
The Split with Voldemaras
Smetona's Daily Routine
The Ideologist Izidorius Tamošaitis
Tumas-Vaižgantas, the Priests, and the Church
The Creation of National Culture, Vincas Krėvė and the President
Lithuania's Poles and Smetona "King of the Jews"
Smetona, Adolf Hitler, and the Nazis
Smetona's In-Laws: Juozas Tūbelis and Jadvyga Chodakauskaitė
A Quick Succession of Prime Ministers in Crisis
The Intriguer: Stasys Raštikis, the Army and the President
Antanas Merkys, Broken and Apathetic
With General Kazys Musteikis and into the Diplomatic "Swamp"
Povilas Žadeikis and Smetona in America
The Fates of Smetona's Family and Friends
Conclusion
NOTES
INDEX
