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An Honourable U-Turn? Finland and New Europe after the End of the First World War

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  • Vares Vesa

    (University of Turku, Assistentinkatu 7 Turku 20500, Finland)

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The article deals with the situation of a small, newly- and uncertainly independent country that had a peculiar experience in the year 1918. The country had declared its independence in December 1917, had received the recognition from Soviet Russia, the Nordic countries, Germany and its allies, and France in January 1918. Almost simultaneously, it drifted to a civil war, in which both the Germans and the Russians participated. However, the Civil War was mainly a domestic concern, and the outcome was the defeat of an attempt at a socialist revolution and the victory of an extremely pro-German government that even elected a German king in Finland in October 1918. The project was never fulfilled, but the experience left an exceptional, pro-German mental heritage, to which the terms of the armistice of November 1918 was a shock. They were seen as unjust, revengeful and even petty—both by the Finnish “Whites” (non-socialists) and the “Reds” (socialists).

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  • Vares Vesa, 2021. "An Honourable U-Turn? Finland and New Europe after the End of the First World War," TalTech Journal of European Studies, Sciendo, vol. 11(1), pages 20-40, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:bjeust:v:11:y:2021:i:1:p:20-40:n:1
    DOI: 10.2478/bjes-2021-0003
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