During its fight for independence Lithuania would be trapped between its neighbors.

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Sources:

The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917–21 by Prit Buttar

The Baltic States The Years of Independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 1917-1940 by George Von Rauch

The Baltic Germans and German Policy towards Latvia after 1918 by J.W. Hiden

The Baltic States: The National Self-Determination of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania Edited By Graham Smith

The Baltic States and Weimar Ostpolitick by John Hiden

Defending National Sovereignty Against two Russians: Estonia in the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920 by Karsten Bruggemann

The Formation of the Lithuanian Foreign Office, 1918-1921 by Alfred Erich Senn

German freecorps in the Baltic, 1918-1919 by Charles L. Sullivan

National Communism and World Revolution: The Political Consequences of German Military Withdrawal from the Baltic Area in 1918-19 by James D. White

The Lithuanian Card in Russian Policy, 1914-1917 by Raimundas Lopata

Soviet Policy Toward the Baltic States 1918-1940 by Albert N. Tarulis

The Baltic Nations and Europe: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century by John Hiden and Patrick Salmon

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