Department of Research on the Nazi and Soviet Regimes, Institute of Latvian History

Department of Research on the Soviet and Nazi Regimes

Research on the Soviet and Nazi regimes:

Head of Department: Irēne Šneidere, Dr hist.
Tel: 7225751, email: npr@lza.lv
Research interests: Soviet persecution, Soviet economic policy, 1940/1941-1944-1990

Daina Bleiere, Dr hist.
Tel: +371 67226857, email: npr@lza.lv
Research interests: political development of the Soviet regime, economic, social and cultural policy in Latvia, 1940-1990

Elita Egle
Tel: +371 67226857, email: npr@lza.lv
Keeper of collections

Dzintars Ērglis, Dr hist.
Tel: +371 67226857, email: npr@lza.lv
Research interests: the resistance movement, Soviet and Nazi persecution 1940-1956, the Holocaust

Edvīns Evarts, Dr. hist.
Tel: +371 67226857, email: npr@lza.lv
Research interests: Nazi policy in Latvia, 1941-1945

Kārlis Kangeris, Dr. hist.
Tel: +371 26366696, email: carolusk@inbox.lv
Research interests: German occupation (1941-1945), 20th century history of Latvia, 20th century diplomacy in the Baltic Sea region, Vilhelms Munters (foreign policy, biography, KGB documents)

Juris Pavlovičs, Mag. hist
Tel: +371 67226857, email: npr@lza.lv
Research interests: the transition between the Soviet and German occupation regimes in 1941 and 1944/1945, the history of technology in Latvia, the history of non-traditional religious denominations in Latvia, 1900-1940

Zigmārs Turčinskis, Mag. hist.
Tel: +371 67226857, email: npr@lza.lv
Research interests: armed resistance to the Soviet occupation, 1944-1956

Rudīte Vīksne, Dr hist.
Tel: +371 67226679, email: npr@lza.lv
Research interests: Soviet and Nazi persecution, the Holocaust, Soviet religious policy, 1940-1990

Arturs Žvinklis
Tel: +3371 67225751, email: npr@lza.lv
Research interests: Soviet persecution, 1940-1990, the parliamentary system of the Republic of Latvia, 1920-1934

Collaboration with the Commission of Historians of Latvia

Close collaboration has developed between the department and the Commission of Historians of Latvia, whose main task is to organise and promote research on the two totalitarian regimes (Soviet and Nazi) and their crimes against Latvia and its people. Dr hist. D. Bleiere and Dr hist. I. Šneidere are members of the commission. All members of the department are actively involved in research financed by the Commission of Historians and have presented papers at all the conferences held by the commission.

Published volume:

Experiencing Totalitarianism. The Invasion and occupation of Latvia by the USSR and Nazi Germany 1939-1991. A Documentary History / Ed. A.Plakans. – Bloomington (USA), 2007.