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This article reviews "Lietuvos istoria (1795-2009.)" (Lithuanian history: 1795-2009), written by Arunas Gumuliauskas and published in 2010, which, according to the reviewer, is the first comprehensive history textbook that thoroughly covers Lithuanian history through the 20th century. The book emphasizes the 19th and 20th centuries, and is written in a style that the general reader, as well as the university student, can learn much. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews a book by Natalija Kasatkina, a sociologist, and Andrus Marcinkevicius, a historian: "Rusai Lietuvos Respublikos visumeneje 1918-1940 m. Istorenes retrospektyvos konstravimas" (Russians in Lithuania: constructing a retrospective history of society in the Republic, 1918-1940), published in 2009. The backgrounds of the authors help to make this a non-typical and more-thorough study of ethnic Russians in Lithuania during the interwar period.

This article presents a review of Algimantas Kasparavicius's "Lietuva 1938-1939 m. Neutraliteto iliuzijos" (Lithuania in 1938-1939: the illusion of neutrality), published in 2010, which examines Lithuania's policy of neutrality prior to World War II in the context of the policies of its Baltic, Soviet, and European neighbors, and Lithuania's limitations in terms of political and military power in following this course.