History as Cultural Memory: Mnemohistory and the Construction of the Estonian Nation

2008-12-01articleJournal of Baltic Studies157 citationsclosed

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Memory, History, Trauma, Identity Philosophy, History, and Historiography Cultural History and Identity Formation

Abstract

The question I want to address in this essay is a quite simple one, if not simplistic: what do Estonians remember of their past? More specifically, my intention is to analyse how the memories of di...

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