Behind the Iron Curtain
Subtitle: Soviet Estonia in the era of the Cold War
By: Tõnu Tannberg (ed.).
Publisher: Peter Lang Edition
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9783631668498; 9783653060829
Subjects: Politics and government; Cold War; Foreign relations; Social conditions; Social change; History
Description: "During the Cold War, Estonia lay behind the Iron Curtain. Even in the grip of Soviet rule, the country underwent many important developments. This volume brings together fourteen papers on the political, economic, and cultural history of Estonia during the Cold War. Their topics range from international relations and the border regime to tourism and the media. The papers are based on extensive archival research and make use of many previously unexamined documents. The resulting book offers new insights into the history of Estonia and of the Cold War on a local level"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Tõnu Tannberg; title: The first diplomats of Soviet Estonia on the eve of the Cold War : the creation of the Estonian SSR People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs in 1944 / Tõnu Tannberg; title: National self-determination, modernization, and the Estonian-Soviet propaganda contest in the early Cold War era / Kaarel Piirimäe; title: The ESSR Council of Ministers : an ethnicity-based organ of power for the Union Republic's international administration? / Olev Liivik; title: The "Estonian Affair" in the context of late-Stalinist party purges / Meelis Saueauk; title: The economic impact of the early Cold War on the Estonian SSR / Olaf Mertelsmann; title: Cold War show trials in Estonia : justice and propaganda in the balance / Meelis Maripuu; title: Images of the enemy and the hero in Stalinist Estonian-language textbooks / Karin Veski and Anu Raudsepp; title: KGB and Stasi traces in historiography : a case study of the literature on the Estonian pre-war military intelligence service / Ivo Juurvee; title: The press in Soviet Estonia : a tool of a closed society / Tiiu Kreegipuu; title: Cold War-era Germany and Eastern Europe in the reports by Karl Selter, Ludvig Jakobsen, and Elmar Reisenberg to the Estonian Consulate General in New York / Vahur Made; title: Finnish foreign tourism in the Estonian SSR during the Cold War, 1955-1980 / Oliver Pagel; title: The Communist Party's fight against "bourgeois television," 1968-1988 / Marek Miil; title: (Anti)-religious aspects of the Cold War : Soviet religious policy as applied in the Estonian SSR / Atko Remmel; title: Regulation and control of the border regime in the Estonian SSR / Indrek Paavle.