The Perception of Historical Identity and the Restoration of Estonian National Independence

Bibliographic Data

ID11047419
AuthorsRein Ruutsoo (Estonian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume23
Issue1
Pages167-179
Publication date1995-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905999508408358
OpenAlexW1999998365
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited6

Attitude towards one's past, the farewell to the communist past, has become a vital matter on the territory of the former Soviet Union. The failure of the “building of communism” project has, besides a devastated environment, left behind it a spiritual “homelessness.” For Russians, for whom communism was the path to global power, the collapse of the Soviet Union also meant a collapse of their national identity. “Look back in anger” might be the most concise way of characterizing their attitude to their history of the past seventy years. The same might be said of the other peoples of the former USSR. Sovietologists who treated the Soviet Union as one entity and placed the Baltic nations into the same category as the other “fraternal” people created insurmountable problems for an understanding of Baltic developments, and Estonian, in particular

Aesthetics · Art · Communism · Estonian · Identity (music · Independence (probability theory · National identity · Perception · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Soviet union · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Politics and Security · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Psychology

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