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History is not merely a recounting of events – this academic discipline is a living dialogue between the past, present, and future, as well as between people’s memories, values, and identity. With its twenty‑first edition, the Yearbook of the Latvian War Museum continues this con versation, offering diverse and multifaceted perspectives on various political, social, and military issues in the history of the 20th century.

The main thematic focus of this issue is the period immediately fol lowing the First World War, during the interwar years of Latvia’s his tory. This period is especially significant, as it was a time of crucial changes that shaped the foundations of the Latvian state and its identity.

Full issue (PDF): Yearbook of the Latvian War Museum XXI
 
Articles:

Navigating Objectivity: The Role of the Concept of Neutrality in Contemporary Military Museums
Daira Riekstiņa

Defining the Enemy: Military Occupation, Security Structures, and Transfers of Experience in the German‑dominated Baltics (1915–1918) 
Emmanuel Debruyne, Klāvs Zariņš

Setting the Christmas Battles in the Context of the Second Awakening
Gatis Ozoliņš

A View from the Inside: The Testimony of Officer Pēteris Bebrišs on the Leadership of the Soviet Latvian Army and the 15th Army in 1919–1920
Ēriks Jēkabsons

The Arms Trade During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): Transactions Between the Supply Department of the Latvian Ministry of War and the Company of Aleksandrs Kļagins
Ginta Ieva Bikše

Issue of Latvia’s restoration of independence in 1991: crises, alternatives and victories
Jānis Taurēns

Visual Evidence Collected by the Latvian SSR Extraordinary Commission in 1944–1945 on the Crimes of the Nazi Regime: A Case Study from the Collection of the Latvian War Museum
Jānis Tomaševskis

Newly Acquired Historical Evidence on the Life of Staņislavs Kursītis (1897–1980) in the Collection of the Latvian War Museum
Kaspars Strods