title: Oppression's influence on behavior: first hand impressions.
abstract: This author, who has been in Latvia every year since 1989 to teach, consult, observe health care and hold seminars for nurses, discusses conditions as she has viewed them in Latvia after the demise of Communism and attempts to explain with the use of theory why conditions exist which prevent the full implementation and acceptance of democracy using oppressed group theory.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Priede-Kalnins
mesh_terms: D017004:Codependency, Psychological; D003148:Communism; D003709:Democracy; D005610:Freedom; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007844:Latvia; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012922:Social Change