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- Title
World Latvian Youth Congresses (1968-1989) and the Development of Exile National-Political Ideas.
- Authors
BEĶERE, Kristīne
- Abstract
World Latvian Youth Congresses were the biggest gatherings of Latvian exile youths from all over the world. The objective of the article is to disclose the role of World Latvian Youth congresses as creators and reflectors of the exile youth's national-political ideas and to analyze examples of these ideas in the context of general exile national-political opinions of the time. Latvian youth in exile accepted the main goal of the exile: to promote the restoration of Latvian state independence and, closely connected to this goal, an aspiration to remain Latvians and keep their Latvian identity at least partly. At the same time, they introduced new and different approaches of how this goal could be achieved. The nationalpolitical ideas of the exile youth tend to be more pragmatic and open to the current global actualities of the time.
- Subjects
EXILES; YOUTH; LATVIANS; IDEOLOGY; GROUP identity
- Publication
Oikos: Lithuanian Migration & Diaspora Studies, 2018, Vol 26, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
1822-5152
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7220/2351-6561.26.9