Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 1989 U.S. Nonrecognition of the Soviet Occupation of Lithuania Robert A. Vitas Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Vitas, Robert A., "U.S. Nonrecognition of the Soviet Occupation of Lithuania" (1989). Dissertations. 2661. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2661 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1989 Robert A. Vitas U.S. NONRECOGNITION OF THE SOVIET OCCUPATION OF LITHUANIA by Robert A. Vitas A Dissertation S~bmitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Loyola University of Chicago in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy January 1989 Copyright (c) 1989 by Robert A. Vitas All Rights Reserved ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author acknowledges the members of his dissertation committee for their advice and encouragement: Dr. Sam C. Sarkesian, Director, Or. Vasyl Markus, Dr. Roger Hamburg, Dr. Barbara A. Bardes, and Dr. John Allen Williams. The Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation, in conjunction with the Graduate School of Loyola University of Chicago, provided funding during the 1987-1988 academic year. which enabled the author to complete the necessary research and begin the task of writing. Dr. John A. Rackauskas, president of the Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, and Mr.