Phillips, Robert Foster2019-06-212019-06-211957-06https://hdl.handle.net/1794/24714111 pagesThe aims of this thesis are twofold; first, to examine the policy of Great Britain in the Baltic provinces in those troubled times immediately following World War I; and, second, to show how British policy in this area fitted into the overall European policy of Great Britain. The year 1919 has been selected for concentrated analysis because it was one of the most complex periods in modern Baltic history. At the time, it seemed that the whole future destiny of the area hung in the balance, and that the outcome of the contest in 1919 would determine who would rule the Baltic for generations to come: Germany, Russia, the Allied Powers, or the Baltic peoples themselves... In order to understand Britain's Baltic policy in 1919, it is necessary to examine the geographical and historical background of this area. A brief geographical sketch and an account of the history of this region prior to 1900 will be included in the introduction. This will be followed by a more detailed account of Baltic history from 1900 through 1918, which will stress the independence movements within the Baltic area and the beginnings of British Baltic policy. The remainder of the thesis covers the year 1919 and deals primarily with British attempts to free the Baltic of German and Bolshevik domination.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USThesis / Dissertation