PLANS OF THE GERMAN COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN THE BALTICS 1918-19192
The review examines the memoirs of the German social-democrat August Winnig, published in translation, with a preface and commentary by the famous Germanist L. V. Lannik (Moscow, 2019), as well as the memoirs of German officers who fight in Latvia en 1919, presented in the collection «The Baltic States between two revolutions» (Saint-Petersburg, 2021), where L. V. Lannik acted as compiler and again as translator. A. Winnig made efforts to keep the Baltic states under German influence, in the sphere of Germany’s economic and political interests. His memoirs provide a vivid picture of the formation of the Latvian and Estonian statehood in 1918-1919. Evaluation of the Entante’s actions in the Baltics is the focus of attention of the military Germans. Based on a scrupulous analysis of the main theses of the stubborn German memoirists, the author of the review comes to the conclusion that the publication of their menoirs in Russian is a significant acquisition for Russian historical science, due to their non-trivial content, as well as high-quality archaeographic design.