On their own behalf : : Ewald Ammende, Europe's national minorities and the campaign for cultural autonomy 1920-1936 / / Martyn Housden.

What form should Europe take? Should it be based on ‘nation states’ or ‘states of nations’? On what basis should European unification proceed? Should it be an élite undertaking pioneered by statesmen elected to democratic government offices, or should true unification also demand a significant Europ...

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Superior document:On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ; 37
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Brill,, [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:On the Boundary of Two Worlds 37.
Physical Description:1 online resource (429 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Why Baltic History is more difficult to write than German History
  • Brave new world: enterprise and aid
  • Liberal nationalist
  • Becoming a minority
  • Achieving cultural autonomy
  • Minority interests—European interests—global interests
  • Establishing the European Congress of Nationalities
  • The General Secretary: early optimism and its frustrations
  • 1929: year of the minorities
  • International national community thinking and a different kind of Pan-Europe
  • Critical challenges
  • The new nationalist wave
  • When friends won't help
  • Aftermath
  • Fateful context
  • At Stalin's throat
  • Admitting defeat
  • The need for more histories of national minorities
  • Bibliography
  • Index.