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100 1 _aMeurman, A.
_q(Agathon),
_d1826-1909
245 1 0 _aNykyisten kauheuksien juuret Itämerenmaakunnissa
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-31
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Nykyisten kauheuksien juuret Itämerenmaakunnissa" by A. Meurman is a historical essay written in the early 20th century. It investigates the roots of contemporary violence in the Baltic provinces, tracing them to centuries of conquest, clerical and noble domination, serfdom, and the failure of ruling elites to integrate with the native population, which fostered durable ethnic and class hatred. The opening of the work poses a stark question about the source of recent atrocities in Russia’s Baltic provinces and answers it by surveying a long history of oppression. It sketches the pattern of medieval expansion—merchant, bishop, and crusading orders—contrasting England and Finland (where elites eventually blended with locals) with Livonia, where German lords remained apart. The author outlines indigenous social organization and the region’s exposed geography, then illustrates the cycle of revolt and reprisal through the St. George’s Night uprising of 1343 and its brutal suppression. He catalogs peasant burdens and legal subjugation under Polish, Swedish, and later Russian rule, highlighting repeated reform attempts blunted by an intransigent nobility. Reports under Catherine II expose extreme abuses; 19th‑century measures (1804, 1819) grant limited personal freedom but often worsen conditions by stripping land rights and preserving corporal punishment. Schools serve Germanization and even temperance efforts are undermined, yet some peasants slowly gain land. The section concludes that today’s violence grows from this uninterrupted history of domination and resentment, and that only genuine social merging could avert renewed catastrophe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Yrjö Weilin, 1906
653 _aBaltic Sea Region -- History
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76204
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_d116929