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Ethnic Relations: Estonians and Non-Estonians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Marika Kirch  and
Aksel Kirch
Marika Kirch
Affiliation:
Institute of International and Social Studies, Estonian Academy of Sciences
Aksel Kirch
Affiliation:
Institute of International and Social Studies, Estonian Academy of Sciences
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As is generally known, the contemporary demographic situation in Estonia is fundamentally different from that of the prewar period. The autochthonous minorities who lived in the prewar Estonian Republic—Germans, Jews, Swedes, Finns, but also native Russians (living in the northern and southern areas of the Peipsi lake)—were lost after World War II together with a change of Estonia's eastern border by Soviet authorities in 1945. This left Estonia a very homogeneous country where Estonians formed some 97% of the population and where the entire population was made up of Estonian-speakers.

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Part I: Estonia's Path to Identity and Independence
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 43 - 59
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Copyright © 1995 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR 

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