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Ethnic diversity and the nation state: national cultural autonomy revisited

National-cultural autonomy has formed the basis for minority rights legislation in eight European states since 1991, and is today widely debated internationally. This book provides new historical insights on these contemporary developments by analysing for the first time the practical implementation of NCA in the inter-war Baltic States and its impact upon European debates on state- and nationhood. The research involved complex multi-level and comparative analysis using extensive materials collected from seven archives in five countries (Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Switzerland and Russia) over a period of five years, including hitherto unseen records of the European Nationalities Congress held in Moscow.