Reviews How and why did Estonia succeed? Exploring the long-lasting grip of the Soviet period

Bakom och bortom järnridån. De sovjetiska åren och frigörelsen i Baltikum och Ukraina [Behind the Iron Curtain and Beyond. The Soviet Years and the Emancipation in the Baltics and Ukraine]. Li Bennich Björkman. Stockholm: Appell förlag. 465 pages

Published in the printed edition of Baltic Worlds BW 2023:1-2, 127-129
Published on balticworlds.com on June 20, 2023

Li Bennich Björkman, Professor Skytteana of Eloquence and Government at Uppsala University, is the appropriate scholar to write the contemporary history of the three Baltic States. Bennich Björkman’s chair was founded by the Swedish state counsellor Johan Skytte in Uppsala four hundred years ago. At the time Estonia had already become, and Livonia was in the process of becoming, a Swedish province.

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Kristian Gerner