Description: This study examines the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian diaspora communities in Sweden during the Cold War. The author analyzes their links with both their host and homeland societies and investigates their clandestine efforts to undermine the communist re...
Brief description: Lars Fredrik Stöcker is Research Fellow at the Research Centre for the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna, Austria. Among his latest publications is the monograph Bridging the Baltic Sea: Networks of Resistance and Opposition in the Cold War Era (2018).
Review Quotes: This is a brilliant synthesis of the history of half a century of transnational resistance and opposition networks in the Baltic Sea region . . . This monograph is well written, highly readable, and follows a convincing line of argumentation. The author is careful with terminology and his study is indeed a pioneering work. He uses the relevant historiography in English, Estonian, German, Polish, and Swedish, as well as archives in Estonia, Hungary, Poland, and Sweden. In addition, the contemporary press and fifteen interviews are employed to offer a broader perspective.