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Latvian Nationalist Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy in the Inter-war Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ieva Zake
Ieva Zake*
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Department of Sociology, Rowan University, USA, zake@rowan.edu
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The development of new states in Central and Eastern Europe during the inter-war period was an enthusiastic attempt to build free and democratic societies, which unfortunately was soon followed by a sense of disappointment among both the public and political elites. This eventually led to the replacement of the young democracies with authoritarian regimes in Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and other countries. I explore this growth of anti-democratic tendencies through the case of Latvian democracy and its opponents in the 1920s and early 1930s. I particularly focus on the role of the nationalist intelligentsia as the author of anti-democratic and pro-authoritarian political ideas.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 97 - 117
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Copyright © 2005 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe 

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