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.