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National minorities as peace-builders? How three Baltic Germans responded to the First World War

Yes / Many members of Europe’s national minorities had particularly terrible experiences during the First World War. This article examines how three ethnic German minority activists from the Baltic region responded to those dreadful years by, subsequently, presenting themselves as peace campaigners promoting a novel model for multi-ethnic society. They promoted ideas such as the ‘a-national state’ and ‘cultural autonomy’ at both national and international levels, not least in the hope of influencing the League of Nations. To what extent should they be accepted as early peacebuilders? / British Academy

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/13344
Date17 February 2018
CreatorsHousden, Martyn
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, Accepted Manuscript
Rights© 2018 Peace History Society and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Housden M (2017) National minorities as peace-builders? How three Baltic Germans responded to the First World War. Peace and Change. 43(1): 5-31, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pech.12272. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

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