1945–1985. The Soviet Period
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The Cold War and Estonia
WWII totally changed the world balance of forces. The impact of the Soviet Union, as one of the winner states, on the decision-making in world ...
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Estonia as a Soviet republic
The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of the fifteen union republics of the USSR; it had some characteristics of a state – a territory, bodies ...
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Opposition to the regime
The majority of Estonians opposed the re-establishment of the Soviet power, expressed in both passive and active resistance to the regime. Between 1944 and 1953 ...
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Politics of violence of the regime
Politics of violence exercised by the Soviet regime was various and directed against different classes of the population with the aim of totally submitting society ...
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The command economy and its consequences
The Estonian Republic had been grounded on farm-based agriculture and industry depending on local resources and labour force. The breaking down of the Estonian economic ...
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Control over cultural life
WWII and the re-establishment of the Soviet regime in 1944 split the so far integral Estonian culture into two parts: cultural lives in exile and ...
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