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Article: "Deads Lands" or "New Europe"? reconstructing Europe, reconfiguring Eastern Europe: "Westerners" and the aftermath of the World War.
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- East European Quarterly
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- March 22, 2002
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A "NEW EUROPE" OR "DEAD LANDS"?
In Britain during 1916, a periodical called The New Europe appeared. Believing that the Great War offered an unique opportunity to destroy the dynastic empires that prevented nationalities like the Czechs and Poles from having their own self-governing homelands, contributors such as R. W. Seton-Watson, Elmer Davis, and W. J. Rose advocated the establishment of independent states, based upon nationality, throughout Eastern Europe. The creation of new nation-states would, these men thought, rectify an historic injustice and satisfy the legitimate claims of the nationalities. After 1918 many intellectuals and popular writers invested ...