Estonia : A Modern History

Name: Estonia : A Modern History
Price: 23.90 EUR
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Author: Neil Taylor
ISBN: 9781805263159

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Neil Taylor offers a vivid account of Estonia’s transformation from centuries of foreign rule to modern independence. With just 1.3 million people, Estonia has emerged as one of Europe’s fastest-growing economies. Taylor traces its journey through occupations by Danes, Swedes, Germans, and Russians, its brief independence in 1920, Soviet annexation, and eventual restoration in 1991. The book blends serious history with quirky anecdotes, making it both informative and engaging.

Author: Neil Taylor
Manufacturer: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Language: Angļu valoda
ISBN code: 9781805263159
Cover type: Soft cover
Year of publication:2025
Number of pages:304

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With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe’s least populous nations -- yet it boasts one of the continent’s fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Neil Taylor charts Estonia’s long, arduous journey to its present-day prosperity, through a thousand years of occupation by Danes, Swedes, Germans and Russians.

In the wake of the First World War, out of the heat of a national awakening and the collapse of the Russian and German empires, Estonia was recognised as an independent nation in 1920. This was not to last -- the country was tossed between the Soviets and Nazis during the Second World War, then fully integrated into the USSR, bringing on more than half a century of renewed occupation and misery. But hopes of true independence never dimmed and, in 1991, the Republic of Estonia was restored.

This unflinching history includes charming moments of colour and levity, from ambassadorial reports on nude bathing and a presidential press conference deliberately held beside a dirty toilet, to the story of a blind pianist, the first foreigner allowed to visit the city of Tartu in the Soviet era.