Essay Galaxy - "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
"The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
The Baltics area is fraught with cross ethnic mergings, conquerings by
different groups, and control by both small groups like the Teutonic and
Livonian knights and by larger entities like the nations of Sweden, Poland,
and Russia during the roughly eight centuries of Baltic history. There is
no ideal way to depict these very diverse groups of people and areas, so
this is an attempt to first look at the area as a whole as it developed, in
the briefest kind of way, then shoot forward in time to examine each of the
three Baltic countries separately prior to World War II and after, and then
an examination of the situation as it is today and in the recent past of
the past two decades.
"Until the twelfth century the marshes and forest-lands along the
eastern coast of the Baltic Sea were lef....
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