"Eine durch und durch demokratische Nation" : Demokratie und Minderheitenschutz in der Außendarstellung Litauens nach 1918
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 25670259
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.25627/20156429859
- Title of journal
- Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
- Article number
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- First page
- 194
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0948-8294
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The article argues that leading figures of the emerging Lithuanian state in 1918 to 1920 used democratic semantics and mechanisms to gain international support for their project of consolidating statehood and dissociate independent Lithuania from Bolshevik Russia, Germany, and Poland. With the devaluation of alternative political models, such as the Brest system and Bolshevism, democracy became the only legitimate basis for the newly emerging states of East Central Europe. The article thus looks at early interwar Lithuania from an international perspective, using Lithuanian newspapers and correspondence between Lithuanian political actors and representatives and journalists of the Western Entente
