Latvian Nationalist Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy in the Inter-war Period

Bibliographic Data

ID11047712
AuthorsIeva Zake (Rowan University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume33
Issue1
Pages97-117
Publication date2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905990500053804
OpenAlexW2165598972
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

The development of new states in Central and Eastern Europe during the inter-war period was an enthusiastic attempt to build free and democratic societies, which unfortunately was soon followed by a sense of disappointment among both the public and political elites. This eventually led to the replacement of the young democracies with authoritarian regimes in Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and other countries. I explore this growth of anti-democratic tendencies through the case of Latvian democracy and its opponents in the 1920s and early 1930s. I particularly focus on the role of the nationalist intelligentsia as the author of anti-democratic and pro-authoritarian political ideas

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Development economics · Disappointment · Economics · Intelligentsia · Latvian · Nationalism · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law

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