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Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia

Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia

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What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a number of sites of interest to explore the vanquishing of the Soviet legacy in Estonia: the railway bazaar in Tallinn where concepts such as ‘market’ and ‘employment’ take on distinctly different meanings from their Western use; Linnahall, a grandiose venue, whose Soviet heritage now poses diffi cult questions of how to present the building’s history; Tallinn’s cityscape, where the social, spatial and temporal co-evolution of the city can be viewed and debated; Narva, a city that marks the border between the Russian Federation, NATO and the European Union, and represents a place of continual negotiation of belonging; and the new Estonian National Museum in Raadi, an area on the outskirts of Tartu, that has been turned into a memory field.

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Keywords

  • anthropology
  • Communism
  • Eastern Europe
  • Estonia
  • European History
  • History
  • Humanities
  • Linnahall
  • Marxism & Communism
  • Narva
  • Political Ideologies
  • Politics & government
  • Regional & national history
  • Russians
  • Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
  • Society & Social Sciences
  • Sociology & anthropology
  • soviet
  • Tallinn

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DOI: 10.14324/111.9781787353534

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