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Estonia: A Modern History

Neil Taylor
4.07/5 (115 ratings)
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With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe’s least populous nations—yet it boasts one of the continent’s fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Neil Taylor charts Estonia’s long, arduous journey to its present-day prosperity, through a thousand years of occupation by Danes, Swedes, Germans and Russians.

In the wake of the First World War, out of the heat of a national awakening and the collapse of the Russian and German empires, Estonia was recognised as an independent nation in 1920. This was not to last—the country was tossed between the Soviets and Nazis during the Second World War, then fully integrated into the USSR, bringing on more than half a century of renewed occupation and misery. But hopes of true independence never dimmed and, in 1991, the Republic of Estonia was restored.

This unflinching history includes charming moments of colour and levity, from ambassadorial reports on nude bathing and a presidential press conference deliberately held beside a dirty toilet, to the story of a blind pianist, the first foreigner allowed to visit the city of Tartu in the Soviet era.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
256 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Hurst
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1849049572
ISBN13:
9781849049573
kindle Asin:
B07MWBSFCZ

Estonia: A Modern History

Neil Taylor
4.07/5 (115 ratings)
Read Download
With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe’s least populous nations—yet it boasts one of the continent’s fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Neil Taylor charts Estonia’s long, arduous journey to its present-day prosperity, through a thousand years of occupation by Danes, Swedes, Germans and Russians.

In the wake of the First World War, out of the heat of a national awakening and the collapse of the Russian and German empires, Estonia was recognised as an independent nation in 1920. This was not to last—the country was tossed between the Soviets and Nazis during the Second World War, then fully integrated into the USSR, bringing on more than half a century of renewed occupation and misery. But hopes of true independence never dimmed and, in 1991, the Republic of Estonia was restored.

This unflinching history includes charming moments of colour and levity, from ambassadorial reports on nude bathing and a presidential press conference deliberately held beside a dirty toilet, to the story of a blind pianist, the first foreigner allowed to visit the city of Tartu in the Soviet era.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
256 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Hurst
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1849049572
ISBN13:
9781849049573
kindle Asin:
B07MWBSFCZ

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