Break Out of Russia: Miķelis Valters and the National Issue in Early Latvian Socialism

Ivars Ijabs

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2012, vol. 43, issue 4, 437-458

Abstract: This article deals with the political thought of Miķelis Valters (1874–1968), whose early writings are considered to contain the first clearly articulated argument for independent and democratic Latvia. Until now, Valters's writings haven′t been analyzed in their own historical and intellectual context, being subjected to Marxist and nationalist ‘proleptic mythologies’ instead. However, such an analysis provides us with important insights about the intellectual origins of Latvian political nationalism. Valters's early argument for independent Latvia derives much from the legacy of Russian narodnichestvo and from German liberal legal theory, rather than from Austro-Marxism, as suggested by previous commentators.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2012.687901

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