Foreign Rule” during the Estonian War of Independence 1918–1920

The Bolshevik Experiment of the “Estonian Worker's Commune”

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ID11263716
AuthorsKarsten Brüggemann (0000-0002-7352-3713, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume37
Issue2
Pages210-226
Publication date2006-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Baltic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-9778 • E-ISSN: 1751-7877
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01629770608628880
OpenAlexW2034595640
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited4

This article investigates the relationship between the national and Bolshevik solutions to the national question during the Estonian War of Independence of 1918–20. Specifically, it examines the failure of the Estonian Workers' Commune, starting from the assumption that as late as November 1918 the fate of the country was still up for grabs, and that the Bolshevik alternative was attractive to all those for whom a social revolution promised a “new life.” The concept of “foreign rule” is important here since, on the one hand, the Moscow-dependent Estonian Bolsheviks were soon seen to have abrogated national solidarity with their calls for class warfare and came to be perceived as foreign. The elections to the constitutional assembly in April 1919, on the other hand, demonstrated the victory of the “bourgeois,” nation state alternative. The victory of Social Democrats over the more conservative Provisional Government serves to demonstrate the lingering attractiveness of social revolution within the national framework, however

Bourgeoisie · Economic history · Economics · Elite · Estonian · Foreign policy · Independence (probability theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · Victory · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Soviet and Russian History

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