This book is the first to highlight the importance of the Baltic region in the approach to war in 1939. Amid the welter of publications on the origins of the Second World War none has sought hitherto to focus on the Baltic region, where peace finally and irrevocably broke down. Central strategic and international issues of the interwar years are thus illuminated from a fresh perspective by a distinguished team of specialists that includes a number of native Baltic historians. The themes discussed by the contributors acquired renewed relevance, as the Baltic republics asserted their rejection...
This book is the first to highlight the importance of the Baltic region in the approach to war in 1939. Amid the welter of publications on the origins...
The historical and geographical significance of the Baltic Sea as a Russian gateway to the West has sometimes overshadowed its reciprocal significance as a German window on the East, but in the period after the First World War the Baltic was to become of critical importance to a German state then shorn of much international authority. This study shows in detail how the Weimar Republic sought to develop its economic influence in the newly independent Baltic states, to ensure the retention of a vital 'springboard' into Russia after 1918. At one level this book therefore presents a fresh chapter...
The historical and geographical significance of the Baltic Sea as a Russian gateway to the West has sometimes overshadowed its reciprocal significance...
This is the first attempt to redress the injustice done to the memory of German minorities by the popular equation of 'Lebensraum' and Nazism; minorities, many of whom chose to be neighbours rather than enemies and who over time peacefully shared with other nationalities the territorial space east of the Reich. Their borderland experiences, particularly in the Baltic region, the historic interface between East and West, are all the more relevant as Hitler's regime recedes into the past and Europe seeks to renew itself in the wake of the Cold War.
This is the first attempt to redress the injustice done to the memory of German minorities by the popular equation of 'Lebensraum' and Nazism; minorit...
This edited volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the 'Baltic question', which arose within the context of the Cold War, and which has previously received little attention.
This volume brings together a group of international specialists on the international history of northern Europe. It combines country-based chapters with more thematic approaches, highlighting above all the political dimension of the Baltic question, locating it firmly in the context of international politics. It explores the policy decision-making mechanisms which sustained the Western...
This edited volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the 'Baltic question', which arose within the context of the Cold War, and which has previo...
This book offers a fresh perspective on current academic and political debates around multiculturalism, democracy, the relationship between nation and state and the political management of ethnic diversity in today 's Europe and beyond.
It brings to light the hitherto neglected contribution that Eastern Europe has made to these debates, by examining the concept of National Cultural Autonomy and its practical applications from the turn of the twentieth century until the present day. In doing this, it assesses the potential applicability of this endogenous eastern model at a time when the...
This book offers a fresh perspective on current academic and political debates around multiculturalism, democracy, the relationship between nation ...
This book explores a largely forgotten legacy of multicultural political thought and practice from within Eastern Europe and examines its relevance to post-Cold War debates on state and nationhood. Featuring a Preface by former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke, it weaves theory and practice to challenge established understandings of the nation state.
Eastern Europe is still too often viewed through the prism of ethnic conflict, which overlooks the region s positive contribution to modern debates on the political management of ethno-cultural diversity, and towards the...
This book explores a largely forgotten legacy of multicultural political thought and practice from within Eastern Europe and examines its relevance...
Of all the Soviet Union's subject nationalities, the three Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, were the most determined and best organised in seizing the opportunities created by glasnost and perestroika to win freedom from Moscow's grip. At the time of first publication, in 1991, the final section of the book was speculative. Now for this revised edition, the authors have provided a new final chapter which brings the story up to date -- and the three republics to political independence again.
Of all the Soviet Union's subject nationalities, the three Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, were the most determined and best organise...
The literature on German foreign policy between the two World Wars is even more extensive than it was when the first edition of this book was published in 1977. This text makes use of the increase in available literature, analyzing the interwar period as a whole from the German perspective.
The literature on German foreign policy between the two World Wars is even more extensive than it was when the first edition of this book was publishe...
This revised and updated edition includes coverage of the following topics: states of Europe 1918-1940; building new states; the diplomacy of survival; the economics of survival; and the events that took place between 1940-1985.
This revised and updated edition includes coverage of the following topics: states of Europe 1918-1940; building new states; the diplomacy of survival...
