Latvia & Russia: One problem of the world-peace considered

CONTENTS

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The World-Peace and the Civil War in Russia	9
The Paris Conference faced by the Russian Sphinx	10
The Representatives of Russia	11
Relations Between Russia and the Borderland Peoples	13
Proposal to postpone the Solution concerning “the Borderland Peoples of Russia”	14
Practical Consequences of the Postponing of the Question	16
It is doubtful whether the Russian People will soon be in a Position to participate in the Solution of these Questions	18
Right of the Russian People to participate in the Solution of the Lettish Question	23
A Definite and Immediate Solution of the Question of Latvia is necessary	26
The Reconstitution of Russia	27
Project of an All-Russian Federation	28
Point of View of the Russian Groups in regard to the Federation of Russia	29
Impossibility of a Russian Federation	33
Historical Impossibility of an All-Russian Federation	34
A Common Civilisation, indispensable to a Federation, does not exist	36
The Economic Problem of a Federated Russia	40
The All-Russian Federation from the Point of View of Constitutional Law	44
The Leaning of the Peoples of Russia towards Independence	49
Economic Disadvantage of Separation from Russia	50
Settlement of Accounts between Latvia and Russia	51
Economic Interests of Latvia	53
Aspirations of the Letts	55
Protests of the Russian Groups	58
Economic Interests of Russia	59
Strategical Interests of Russia	62
Guarantees of the World-Peace	70
Principle of Political Equilibrium	70
Russia as a Factor in Political Equilibrium	71
Internal Weakness of Russia	72
Political Leanings of Russia towards Germany	74
Russia as a Probable Destroyer of the World-Peace	77
Russia’s Policy in the Baltic	79
The Political RÔle of the New States	83
The Dominium maris Baltici	86
Line of Partition Between Russia and Germany	87
Conclusion	90

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LATVIA AND RUSSIA
The World-Peace and the Civil War in Russia

No world-peace is possible before peace in Russia is re-established! Indeed, how can we talk of universal peace when 180 million men are still in the throes of a most disastrous and terrible war, a war which leads, not to victory, but to annihilation?

There will be no peace in the world if there is no peace in Russia, for the boiling lava in eruption may well submerge the whole of Europe at any moment. That is why the Paris Conference will remain powerless if it cannot terminate the civil war in Russia. All that the Conference has done and is doing at the present time will be brought to nothing and will be a waste of time unless a normal and peaceful state of things is established in Eastern Europe. Until the Peace Conference has settled these questions, humanity will continue to be overshadowed by the menace of such a catastrophe that the disasters of the four years of war will appear in comparison as mere child’s play.

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