LATVIA AND RUSSIA

LATVIA & RUSSIA
ONE PROBLEM OF THE
WORLD-PEACE CONSIDERED
BY
ARVED BERG
(Member of the National Council of Latvia)

1920
LONDON AND TORONTO
J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.

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

Map of Lines of Communication of LATVIA

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?