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Piip, Meierovics & Voldemaras: The Baltic States (Hardcover, New)
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Piip, Meierovics & Voldemaras: The Baltic States (Hardcover, New)
Series: Makers of the Modern World
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Discovery Miles 3 670
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Conflict on the borders of the Russian Empire, whatever the
complexion of the government controlling it, has been a constant
feature of the past 90 years, most recently with Russia's brief war
with Georgia in August 2008. In 1919, as the smaller nations on
Russia's borders sought self-determination while the Civil War
raged between the Whites and the Bolsheviks, the Paris Peace
Conference struggled with a situation complicated by mutually
exclusive aims. The Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
were seen by both the Russians and the Western Allies as a
protective buffer for their own territory, which led to the curious
situation that the Peace Conference requested German troops to
remain temporarily in the Baltic territory they had occupied during
the First World War to block the westward spread of the Bolshevik
Revolution. The ongoing civil war in Russia further complicated the
issue, because if the Whites should win and restore the legitimate'
Russian government, the Peace Conference could not divide up the
territory of a power that had been one of the original members of
the Entente. The US politician Herbert Hoover described Russia as
Banquo's ghost' at the Paris Peace Conference, an invisible but
influential presence, and nowhere can this be more clearly seen
than in the deliberations over the Baltic States.
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