Illustrations

LATVIA: Area 25,000 Sq. miles. Population 2,094,000
Rame Eihe*, a Latvian State University student, is wearing the traditional headdress and ornament as a performer in the "Saulgieji"* Folk Theatre in Riga.
The State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Riga

* These should be Aija Rāme and "Saulgrieži" (appears as "Saulgrieji" with another illustration)—this sort of error is typical in Soviet sources originally written in Russian, the product of names phonetically transliterated twice, once from Latvian (Roman) to Russian (Cyrllic) then back to Latvian (Roman).

"Latvia—Our Dream is Coming True" was published by Soviet Booklets, London, England, in December, 1959,
as part of the series "THE FIFTEEN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS OF TODAY AND TOMMORROW."
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