Americans in The Baltics: Two Centuries of Diplomacy, Intrigue and Friendship Part I
byThe first part of a two part series looking at the history of US-Baltic diplomatic relations over two centuries. Part two is available here….
History
Stanford to host a major Baltic conference in 2018
byThe Stanford University Libraries will be hosting the 2018 AABS Conference at Stanford University. The conference will celebrate two important milestones – the 50th…
Sofi Oksanen: Your Silence Will Not Protect You
byDuring my years at school, maps hung on our classroom walls on which the Finnish borders were clear, as were those of the Soviet…
Gulag 113
byIn the summer of 1941, thousands of Estonian men were illegally mobilized into the Soviet Red Army by threat of force and violence against…
Women At the Mercy of War and Confined By The Words Of Men
byImbi Paju is an Estonian author, historian and filmmaker whose work examines the traumas of totalitarianism. Her book and film “Sisters Across The Gulf…
A Pedigree of Repression: Putin’s New Chief-of-Staff
byVladimir Putin has tapped deep into a line of dependable Soviet era nomenklatura, reaching back to the time of Stalin, to appoint his latest…
Sofi Oksanen: What It’s Like to Write about Russia
byIn 2003 I published my first novel in Finland, Stalin’s Cows, which dealt with the recent history of Estonia. I was confronted by journalists…
Soviet Era Lustration Archive Project Launched in Finland
by”Lustration is the process of making something clear or pure, usually by means of a propitiatory offering. It is also the purge of government…
Historical Baltic Resort Fashion from Pärnu
byA new exhibition of Baltic Sea region resort fashion has opened at the Pärnu Museum and runs until August 30. Resort fashion started to develop…
Icelandic Saga-Age Ramparts and Tunnel Identified
byRemains of a structural wall and a short tunnel from the twelfth century, which are mentioned in the Sagas of the Icelanders, appear to…