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- ↑ Misiunas, Romuald; Taagepera, Rein (1993). The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940-1990. University of California Press. ISBN 0520082281.
- ↑ Karklins, Rasma. Ethnopolitics and the Transition to Democracy: The Collapse of the USSR and Latvia. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. p. 183. ISBN 0943875617.
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