CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Ölveczky, Anna |
|---|---|
| Title | Anational state and the age of nation-statism: Paul Schiemann's liberalism and the challenge of authoritarian regimes |
| Summary | Paul Schiemann (1874-1944), the extraordinary Baltic German politician and journalist was born as a subject of the Russian Tsar and died as a Latvian citizen in German occupied Riga; he lived his life in a permanent minority situation. He was in minority in the sense that he did not belong to the titular nation of his homeland and also because he was one of few interwar politicians who did not represent populist ideas. In the historiography he is famous for his oppositional standpoint towards Bolshevism, radical nationalism and Nazism. His idea about the state which acknowledges itself anational made him well known. The concept of anational state is a long-term vision for guaranteeing the peaceful coexistence of nations in Europe. This plan based on the duality of national and state communities with distinct responsibilities and tasks. He believed in a state with reduced functions and in the right of people to decide about their national affiliation, which he considered as a pure spiritual commitment. He was able to promote his convictions until the end of 1920s without restrictions because the “new nationalist wave” undermined his aspirations and achievements. My thesis analyses the ideas of Schiemann about the relations between the minority and state in the context of his co-nationals, his state community and on European level. |
| Supervisor | Trencsényi, Balázs |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/olveczky_anna.pdf |
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