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To better understand the Baltic Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union, one must grasp the historical context and the economic-political framework in which the events occurred. Often, history is viewed through a generalized Western lens or the Kremlin’s narrative. The charts below include an additional perspective: the local narrative through the lens of the Baltic nations: Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
Each chart highlights material from Daiva’s presentations for various audiences.
Charts have NOT been generated by AI.
These are free to use for your educational purposes. Feel free to reach out with any questions or if you’re looking for something specific.
Economic-Political Ideology Definitions
Click on each below to view full screen. The slides below are individual highlights from various presentations.(Some 6th grade-level and up)
What is Communism?
The Spread of Marxist-Leninist Communism
Click on each below to view full screen. The slides below are individual highlights from various presentations. (High School-level and up)
Spread of Marxist-Leninist Communist Countries
How Countries Became Communist Categories
How Russia Incorporated Countries into the USSR
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation
Soviet Political Evolution of Collapse
Click on each below to view full screen. The slides below are highlights from presentations. (High School level and up)
- From a presentation about how Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika (restructuring) triggered the collapse of the USSR (4 slides)
Soviet Union Power Pyramid
How Gorbachev Broke the Soviet Power Pyramid
Breaking the Soviet Power Pyramid Triggered the Collapse of the USSR
Soviet Power No Longer a Pyramid in 1991 – the Collapse of the USSR accelerated
Legitimacy of Lithuanian Statehood
Click on each below to view full screen. The slides below comprise a full presentation on this topic (17 slides). (College-level)
Legitimacy of Lithuanian Statehood
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation
The Soviet Blueprint for Soviet Annexation Step One
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation Step Two
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation Step Three
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation Step Four
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation Step Five
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation Map
Soviet Repression
Soviet Repression Resistance
Soviet Annexation Interrrupted by German Nazi Invasion
The Holocaust in Lithuania
Soviet Re-Occupation
Soviet Re-Occupation Means Repression Continues
Lithuanian Anti-Soviet Resistance
Lithuanian Anti-Soviet Resistance and the Politics of Memory
