New title from CEU Press

Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered edited by Bradley D. Woodworth, Violeta Davoliūtė, and Darius Staliūnas is now available. The volume is part of our of our Crisis, Conflict and Security in Central and Eastern Europe series.

This collected volume offers an original perspective on the Baltic region by examining the intricate relationships between its diverse ethnic groups from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Rather than focusing solely on national narratives or comparisons of historical development, the book analyzes ethnic relations through the lenses of identity, governance, empire, and violence. The nearly constant redrawing of geographic borders and boundaries among communities during this period destabilized fixed identities, generating novel, hybrid ways of self-identification along with a hardening of oppositions. Innovative forms of coexistence came with violent, sometimes genocidal conflicts. The contributors explore topics such as evolving senses of belonging, the impact of imperial and Soviet rule, instances of cooperation and conflict, and the legacies of historical trauma. By incorporating new sources and interdisciplinary approaches, they update traditional understandings of nations and nationalism in the Baltic region and provide insights relevant to similar regions.

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Bradley D. Woodworth is Professor of History at the University of New Haven and Baltic Studies Program Manager at Yale University. His primary research interest is the multiethnic lands of the Baltic Sea region.

Violeta Davoliūtė is Senior Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History and Project Leader of Facing the Past: Public History for a Stronger Europe (Horizon Europe, WIDERA program, 2022–2025). She has published extensively on the topics of memory, historical trauma, population displacement, identity, and nationalism.

Darius Staliūnas is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History and teaches at Vilnius University. He has published extensively on Russia’s nationality policy in the so-called Northwestern Region (Lithuania and Belarus), ethnic conflicts, problems of historiography, and places of memory in Lithuania.