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Informationen zum Autor Charlotte Alston is Lecturer in History in the School of History and International Affairs at Ulster University. Her research interests are in international history between 1890 and 1945, media history, and the history of Russia and Eastern Europe, particularly relations between Russia/Eastern Europe and the West. Recent projects have included work on Russia and the border states at the Paris Peace Conference and the Russian Civil War. Her publications include Russia's Greatest Enemy? Harold Williams and the Russian Revolutions (2007), and the papers 'The Suggested Basis for a Russian Federal Republic': Britain, Anti-Bolshevik Russia and the Border States at the Paris Peace Conference 1919', History Vol. 91 No. 301 (January 2006) and 'James Young Simpson and the settlement of the Latvian-Lithuanian border 1920-21: the papers in the archive of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society', The Scottish Geographical Journal Vol. 118 No. 2 (December 2002). Klappentext A history of the Baltic states, from Versailles, through World War II, to Soviet occupation. Zusammenfassung The US politician Herbert Hoover described Russia as Banquo's ghost' at the Paris Peace Conference, an invisible but influential presence, and nowhere can this be more clearly seen than in the deliberations over the Baltic States. This title deals with the Baltic States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction I. The Lives and the Land 1. A Brief History 2. The Baltic Region and the Russian Empire 3. War! Revolution and Independence II. The Peace Conferences 4. Early Allied Contacts 5. The Baltic Delegations in Paris 6. Baltic Co-operation in Paris 7. The Baltic Commissions 8. Settlement of Territorial Questions and Recognition III. The Legacy 9. The Inter-war Legacy 10. Loss of Independence 11. Return to Europe Notes Chronology Bibliographical Essay Picture Sources Index ...
