Alfred Erich Senn. Lithuania Awakening

Monograph. Berkeley Los Angeles Oxford: University of California Press, 1990.- 255 p.
The mass demonstrations that shook Lithuania in 1988 touched off a national rebirth, triggering a public outcry for an end to a half-century of Soviet rule. Senn, a University of Wisconsin historian, visited Lithuania in '88, and his detached, eyewitness account of that pivotal year provides a key to understanding the nationalist and ethnic ferment sweeping the Soviet Union. We watch as Stalin's murders and deportations become a topic for open discussion; as ecological concerns and rock music galvanize Lithuania's youth; and as people clamor for making Lithuanian the official language and for teaching the nation's history in the schools.
New Winds.
The Debate Erupts.