This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Latvia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

Andrejs Plakans is professor of history (emeritus) at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. past president of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, he has also served on committees of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the American Historical Association, and the Social Science History Association.
Aldis Purs is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of history in the Department of Scandinavian and Baltic Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He has served on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) and organized the first joint conference of the AABS and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS) in 2010 in Seattle, Washington.

Editor's Foreword Jon Woronoff
Preface
Reader's Note
Acknowledgements
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendix: Past and Present Governments of the Territory of Contemporary Latvia
Bibliography
About the Author