Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Cultural Autonomy in Central and Eastern Europe

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Notes

1. AHRC award no. RG/AN10102/APN16232: Ending Nationalism? The Quest for Cultural Autonomy in Inter-War Europe', Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow. For a summary of the main findings to date see Smith (2005) and Hiden & Smith (2006). In this connection see also Smith (1999) and Hiden (2004).

2. Note also corresponding schemes that were devised autonomously of Renner and Bauer by Jewish political circles within the western borderlands of the tsarist empire (see Liekis, 2003; Nikzentaitis et al., 2004)

3. In early 2007 Estonia's small Swedish minority became the first eligible group to implement this law.

4. The Estonian constitution of 1920 stated that, wherever there were 20 pupils speaking a particular language, the state was obliged to offer publicly funded schooling in that language. It also stipulated that in areas where a minority group made up more than 50% of the local population, the relevant language should serve as a second official language alongside Estonian.

5. ‘L'autonomie culturelle comme solution du probleme des minorites. Note de M. Krabbe au date du 18 Nov 1931’, League of Nations Archives R2175 4 32835, p. 1.

6. Ibid.