{"id":49299,"date":"2019-06-29T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=49299"},"modified":"2019-06-28T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T21:09:58","slug":"estonia-and-latvia-fight-for-independence-russian-civil-war-baltic-front-i-the-great-war-june-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/06\/29\/estonia-and-latvia-fight-for-independence-russian-civil-war-baltic-front-i-the-great-war-june-1919\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia and Latvia Fight For Independence &#8211; Russian Civil War Baltic Front I THE GREAT WAR June 1919"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eUO8XmTr46g\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Great War<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 28 Jun 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>GAME OF TRENCHES<\/em>: The first 20 players to register at: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/GameOfTrenches\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/GameOfTrenches<\/a> will receive in-game rewards worth a total of 10 600 Gold<\/p>\n<p>Estonia and Latvia had declared their independence from Russia in the late 1918 chaos. Over the spring of 1919 both countries&#8217; new governments needed to defend that independence not only against the Russian Bolsheviks: there was also a violent internal struggle about the future of these countries. The Baltic Germans didn&#8217;t want to give up their social status and the even the anti-Bolshevik Russians considered the Baltics as part of the Russian Empire. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT THE CHANNEL<br \/>\nPatreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thegreatwar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thegreatwar<\/a><br \/>\nMerchandise: <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.spreadshirt.de\/thegreatwar\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/shop.spreadshirt.de\/thegreatwar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<br \/>\nBennett, Geoffrey Martin. <em>Cowan&#8217;s War. The Story of British Naval Operations in the Baltic, 1918-1920<\/em> (London: Collins, 1964)<\/p>\n<p>Chester, Geoff. &#8220;When the Capital of Latvia was a Ship Called <em>Saratov<\/em>\u201d (Deep Baltic, 2016). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=pHtnCJMwDjeZfXfd5_lrBRCQhZx8MTU2MTg0MDM1MUAxNTYxNzUzOTUx&#038;v=eUO8XmTr46g&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fdeepbaltic.com%2F2016%2F06%2F13%2Fwhen-the-capital-of-latvia-was-a-ship-called-saratov%2F&#038;event=video_description\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/deepbaltic.com\/2016\/06\/13\/whe&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fletcher, William A. &#8220;The British Navy In the Baltic, 1918-1920. Its Contribution to the Independence of the Baltic Nations&#8221;. <em>Journal of Baltic Studies<\/em>, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 1976, p. 134-144.<\/p>\n<p>Gerwarth, Robert. <em>The Vanquished. Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923<\/em> (Penguin, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Hatlie, Mark R. <em>Riga at War 1914-1919. War and Wartime Experience in a Multi-ethnic Metropolis<\/em> (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2014). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=pHtnCJMwDjeZfXfd5_lrBRCQhZx8MTU2MTg0MDM1MUAxNTYxNzUzOTUx&#038;v=eUO8XmTr46g&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fdigital.herder-institut.de%2Fpublications%2Ffrontdoor%2Fdeliver%2Findex%2FdocId%2F116%2Ffile%2FStudien_30_ISBN_9783879693771.pdf&#038;event=video_description\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/digital.herder-institut.de\/pu&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>J\u0113kabsons, \u0112riks: &#8220;C\u0113sis, Battle of&#8221;, in: <em>1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War<\/em>, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Berlin 2014-10-08. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=pHtnCJMwDjeZfXfd5_lrBRCQhZx8MTU2MTg0MDM1MUAxNTYxNzUzOTUx&#038;v=eUO8XmTr46g&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fencyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net%2Farticle%2Fcesis_battle_of%23GND_116765038&#038;event=video_description\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/encyclopedia.1914-1918-online&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ibid. &#8220;The Latvian War of Independence 1918-1920 and the United States&#8221;. In: Fleishman L., Weiner A. (ed).<em> War, Revolution, and Governance: The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth Century<\/em> (Boston, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>Kirby, David. <em>The Baltic World 1772\u20131993. Europe&#8217;s Northern Periphery in an Age of Change<\/em>. (London: Longman, 1995).<\/p>\n<p>Raun, Toivo U. <em>Estonia and the Estonians<\/em>, 2nd ed. (Stanford: Hoover, 2002). <\/p>\n<p>Sammartino, Annemarie H. <em>The Impossible Border: Germany and the East, 1914\u20131922<\/em> (Cornell, 2014). <\/p>\n<p>Sullivan, Charles L. &#8220;The 1919 German Campaign in the Baltic. The Final Phase.&#8221; In <em>The Baltic States in Peace and War, 1917\u20131945<\/em>, ed. V. Stanley Vardys and Romuald J. Misiunas, 31-42. (University Park: Penn State, 1978). <\/p>\n<p>Tammela, Mari-Leen. <em>Saaremaa Uprising<\/em>. Estonica (Estonian Institute, 2012). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=pHtnCJMwDjeZfXfd5_lrBRCQhZx8MTU2MTg0MDM1MUAxNTYxNzUzOTUx&#038;v=eUO8XmTr46g&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.estonica.org%2Fen%2FSaaremaa_Uprising%2F&#038;event=video_description\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.estonica.org\/en\/Saaremaa_U&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Uustalu, Evald. <em>The History of Estonian People<\/em> (London: Boreas, 1952). <\/p>\n<p>Von Rauch, Georg. <em>The Baltic States. The Years of Independence 1917-1940<\/em> (London: Hurst, 1995). <\/p>\n<p>Smele, Jonathan. <em>The &#8216;Russian&#8217; Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World<\/em> (Oxford University Press: 2016) <\/p>\n<p>Palmer, Alan. <em>Northern Shores: A History of the Baltic Sea and Its Peoples<\/em> (John Murray, 2005) <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller &#038; Florian Wittig<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Toni Steller<br \/>\nSound: Toni Steller<br \/>\nEditing: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nMotion Design: Christian Graef &#8211; GRAEFX<br \/>\nMaps: Daniel Kogosov (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Zalezsky\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Zalezsky<\/a>)<br \/>\nResearch by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nFact checking: Florian Wittig <\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Alexander Clark<br \/>\nOriginal Logo: David van Stephold <\/p>\n<p>A Mediakraft Networks Original Channel <\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images<br \/>\nAll rights reserved &#8211; Real Time History GmbH 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-29-Estonia-and-Latvia-Fight-For-Independence-\u2013-Russian-Civil-War-Baltic-Front-I-THE-GREAT-WAR-June-1919.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-29-Estonia-and-Latvia-Fight-For-Independence-\u2013-Russian-Civil-War-Baltic-Front-I-THE-GREAT-WAR-June-1919-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-29-Estonia-and-Latvia-Fight-For-Independence-\u2013-Russian-Civil-War-Baltic-Front-I-THE-GREAT-WAR-June-1919-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-29-Estonia-and-Latvia-Fight-For-Independence-\u2013-Russian-Civil-War-Baltic-Front-I-THE-GREAT-WAR-June-1919-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-29-Estonia-and-Latvia-Fight-For-Independence-\u2013-Russian-Civil-War-Baltic-Front-I-THE-GREAT-WAR-June-1919-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-29-Estonia-and-Latvia-Fight-For-Independence-\u2013-Russian-Civil-War-Baltic-Front-I-THE-GREAT-WAR-June-1919-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-29-Estonia-and-Latvia-Fight-For-Independence-\u2013-Russian-Civil-War-Baltic-Front-I-THE-GREAT-WAR-June-1919.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great War Published on 28 Jun 2019 GAME OF TRENCHES: The first 20 players to register at: http:\/\/bit.ly\/GameOfTrenches will receive in-game rewards worth a total of 10 600 Gold Estonia and Latvia had declared their independence from Russia in the late 1918 chaos. 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