The 1972 Memorandum to the United Nations and its repercussions

Émigré politics and Soviet Estonian dissent during the ‘era of stagnation’

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ID11264574
AuthorsLars Fredrik Stöcker (0000-0001-9114-6635, Uppsala University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume48
Issue2
Pages109-133
Publication date2017-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Baltic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-9778 • E-ISSN: 1751-7877
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01629778.2016.1226187
OpenAlexW2516545759
LanguageEN
References cited18

The Estonian dissidents’ Memorandum to the United Nations, drafted as a call for national self-determination in 1972, set new standards for the émigré community’s campaigns. Although its political message was initially dismissed as utopian, the subsequently emerging cooperation between émigré and homeland activists via intricate courier networks significantly strengthened the authority of Estonian voices in the West. By the early 1980s, the political alliances across the Iron Curtain eventually bore fruit. The Memorandum’s core demands reappeared in political debates on Baltic issues on both sides of the Atlantic, foreshadowing the massive Western support for the Baltic cause during the Singing Revolutions

Development economics · Dissent · Economic history · Economic stagnation · Economics · Estonian · Memorandum · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European history and politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Philosophy

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