New Masters of the Baltic (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from New Masters of the Baltic The four new republics on the eastern Baltic - Finland, Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania - owe their independence to the World War and the Russian revolution. The breaking of the political tie with old Russia, which resulted almost automatically from the Bolshevik revolution, was followed, however, in each case, by a bitter internal struggle - a more or less clearly defined social revolution - for which their curious social and economic make-up had long been preparing them. This curious social arrangement, and the tragic drama growing out of it, was similar in all four countries, different as they are in relative development and local scene. The characters and "lines" were unlike, but the plot, so to speak, was the same. Each, as a more or less forcibly held province of old Russia, was subject in the old days to an external political rule. Internally, each was dominated socially and, to a certain extent, economically, by an aristocratic minority which was neither Russian nor "native." The Swedes, or Swede-Finhs, made up this minority in Finland, the Germanic Bait Barons in Esthonia and Latvia, in Lithuania it was the estate-owning Poles or Polonized-Lithuanians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.