Social and National Currents in Latvia, 1860-1917

National Identity Formation in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire: The Skerst Family in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

“…4 A consequence of this development, evident at least by the 1900s, was a pronounced class rather than ethnic/national consciousness among the Latvian proletariat. 5 The corollary was a tendency among the Latvian bourgeoisie to stress its shared interests with the local German peer group.…”