Acta Historica Tallinnensia (Nov 2022)

Conciliation or Disappointment? Baltic German Reactions to Estonian and Latvian Recognition

  • Heidi Rifk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3176/hist.2022.2.02
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 2
pp. 212 – 234

Abstract

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The aim of this article is to examine the perspective(s) of a small, but influential minority, the Baltic Germans, to the de jure recognition of the Estonian and Latvian nation-states by the United States of America in 1922. It outlines the Baltic Germans’ plans of how to govern the region after the Russian Revolution of 1917; the outcomes of the establishment of the national republics of Estonia and Latvia in relation to the German communities; and, the representation of de jure recognition by the US in the Baltic German press.

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