2025/12/04 by Kaisa Langer, William Connor
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paper · doi:10.25355/dy9a-8644
In the early 20th century, Baltic German landowners recruited German farmers from Russia. The immigration of these farmers – at that time called “German colonists” – inspired a variety of colonial discourses.