TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heingartner,Robert W.
AU  - Senn,Alfred Erich
TI  - Lithuania in the 1920s: a diplomat's diary 
T2  - On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics
SN  - 9789042027619
AV  - DK505.76.H34 A3 2009
U1  - 947.5 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York, NY
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Heingartner, Robert W.
KW  - Smetona, Antanas,
KW  - Diplomats
KW  - United States
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Lithuania
KW  - Kaunas
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Visitors, Foreign
KW  - History
KW  - 1918-1945
KW  - Relations
KW  - Kaunas (Lithuania)
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Prologue -- September 10 to December 31, 1926 -- January 1 to June 30, 1927 -- July 1 to December 31, 1927 -- January 1 to June 20, 1928 -- July 1 to July 20, 1928 -- Addenda -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Robert W. Heingartner kept this diary during his two year service as American consul in Kaunas, the provisional capital of Lithuania, 1926-1928. First titling the work “Impressions of Kaunas,” he wanted to record all his impressions of this small city about which he actually knew very little. He started with negative impressions, but he soon came to like it. He watched its growth with considerable sympathy. The diary’s appeal lies in its picture of daily life in Kaunas as the “provisional capital” of a newly independent small state – the conditions of life in the city, the social life of the diplomats, and backstage episodes in the life of the foreign diplomats. The diary records some unusual details about the family of Antanas Smetona, the ruler of Lithuania from 1926 to 1940, and it abounds in interesting commentary on the attitudes of both Lithuanians and foreigners
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042027619
ER  -