Narrating Independence - A Narrative Analysis of Contemporary Estonian and Latvian Narratives about Independence
Journal: Lund University Publications Student Papers (Lund University)
Year: 2020

In 2018, several European nations celebrated their centennial anniversaries of independence. Two of them, Estonia and Latvia, had never been independent before 1918, and for these nations, the events surrounding independence therefore have a special meaning. This is not least made evident by the historical development that they have gone through over the course of the past century, having been incorporated in the Soviet Union for fifty years before regaining independence in 1991. This study sets