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The book summarizes the reports of 14 speakers of the conference "Latvian industry before and after regaining independence" on December 13, 2013: scientists, historians, factory managers and civil servants about what industry was actually like during the USSR and what and why happened after the restoration of independence with these "powerful" factories, why a large part of them stopped working, including the famous VEF. The book contains an overview of Latvia's economy before the occupation of 1940 during the 1st independence period, an analytical overview of the USSR-era industry and its specifics, as well as the prospects for today's industrial development.

Verlagsinfo: Riga war das Zentrum jüdischen Lebens in Lettland. Mit dem Einmarsch deutscher Truppen im Juli 1941 wurde die Stadt zu einem Zielort von Deportationen und zum Tatort nationalsozialistischer Vernichtungspolitik. Angehörige von SS, Polizei und Wehrmacht sowie lokale Hilfstruppen ermordeten fast alle lettischen sowie die aus Deutschland, Wien, Prag und Brünn nach Riga deportierten Jüdinnen und Juden. Unter den Deportierten waren auch 753 Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger. Der Hannoversche Bahnhof war Ausgangspunkt, aber auch Zwischenstation für Deportationen aus Norddeutschland nach Riga. Die wenigen Überlebenden kehrten nur selten in ihre Heimatländer zurück. Zumeist kämpften sie vergeblich um Gerechtigkeit. Ebenso blieb eine umfassende juristische Aufarbeitung der Verbrechen aus. Zwei der umfangreichsten Verfahren zu den deutschen Verbrechen in Riga fanden in den 1950er und 1970er Jahren vor dem Hamburger Landgericht statt. Heute ist der Hannoversche Bahnhof in Hamburg ein wichtiger Erinnerungsort an die Deportationen nach Riga. Die Ausstellung möchte dazu beitragen, die Deportationen nach Riga und das nationalsozialistische Morden im öffentlichen Gedenken Deutschlands wie auch Lettlands zu verankern.

Chronicled in this selection of his writings, are Chandrashekhar Agashe's notices, letters, missives, and memoranda showcasing his tactful defences of his business, his daring challenges to his detractors, his witty rebuttals to his critics, and his humble gratitude to his supporters, as published in The Kesari, during the tumultuous years he and his business faced between 1950 and 1956.

For thousands of years India's Dalits were abhorred as "untouchables," denied education and treated as bonded labour. By 1923 Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo, won doctorates abroad and fought for the emancipation of his people. He drafted India's Constitution, led his followers to discard Hinduism for Buddhism. His legend still spreads through poetry and song. In 1997 a statue of Dr. Ambedkar in a Dalit colony in Mumbai was desecrated with footwear. As angry residents gathered, police opened fire killing 10. Vilas Ghogre, a leftist poet, hung himself in protest. Jai Bhim Comrade shot over 14 years, follows the poetry and music of people like Vilas and marks a subaltern tradition of reason that, from the days of the Buddha, has fought superstition and religious bigotry