War and Intervention at the Baltic Sea Soviet, German and British attempts at securing the Baltics, 1917-1919

Turnár Erik: War and Intervention at the Baltic Sea Soviet, German and British attempts at securing the Baltics, 1917-1919. In: Belvedere Meridionale, (37) 4. pp. 44-54. (2025)

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As a result of World War I, Eastern Europe became a shatterzone of the former empires. The fall of the German, Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires created a vacuum of power in which many nationalities strived for their independence for the first time. Their struggle met or clashed with the interest of victorious powers like the United Kingdom or with powers like Germany and Soviet Russia which wanted to regain their dominant status in the region. This clash of interests culminated in the wars in the Baltics which was a strategically crucial gateway between Central Europe and the Russian heartland. While both the Germans and the Soviets tried to secure the region for their interest, the United Kingdom wanted to keep both powers from the Baltics to create a wall between them. The present study attempts to present the entangled conflict of the mentioned three great powers over the Baltics in which Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians struggled to achieve their independence.

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