Author or Editor: Joseph Rothschild and Nancy M. Wingfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Pages: 338
Size: 1.57MB
At the close of World War I, the four defeated empires that had dominated and ruled East Central Europe—the German, Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian empires—were replaced by a dozen new or restored or enlarged would-be nation-states, all of which based their asserted legitimation on the then reigning politico-moral principle of national self-determination. Though the territorial arrangements of 1919 to 1921 still left a number of additional nations in East Central Europe stateless and created problems of aggrieved minorities allocated to states toward which they felt little or no affinity (conditions that induced revisionist apologists for the territorial losers of World War I to charge that the territorial arrangements were merely a cynical and unprincipled victors’ fiat), for all their admitted flaws, they still freed three times as many people from nationally alien rule as they subjected to such rule.
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