Estonian history
The story of Estonia, into which the fate of the Estonian Tatars is woven — the pre-war republic, the turning point of 1939 and the Second World War.
28 September 1939: A dance of death between two devils under Satan's gaze
On 28 September 1939 two sets of negotiations ran almost simultaneously in the Moscow Kremlin, both of which sealed the fate of the Republic of Estonia: the German–Soviet Boundary…
Read →A secret declaration of war: the pact, the bases, and the crime against Estonia
This page makes an argument. The 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and its consequences for Estonia should be read not as diplomacy but as crime: the pact's secret protocol was a covert…
Read →Innocent Estonia: the Tatars' good life before 1939, and Estonians at Nuremberg
Before 28 September 1939, Muslims — mainly Mišär Tatars — lived very well in free Estonia. Estonia was innocent: not an instigator of war but a victim, coerced by Stalin and Hitler…
Read →The Continuation War
The Continuation War (1941–1944) was a war between Finland and the Soviet Union, part of the Second World War and a sequel to the Winter War of 1939–1940. In it Finland fought as a…
Read →The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is the treaty concluded in Moscow on 23 August 1939 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Officially named the “Treaty of Non-Aggression between Ge…
Read →The Treaty of Tartu
The Treaty of Tartu (Tartu rahu, 2 February 1920) was the peace treaty between the Republic of Estonia and Soviet Russia (Nõukogude Venemaa) that ended the Estonian War of Independ…
Read →The Winter War
The Winter War (30 November 1939 – 13 March 1940) was the Soviet Union's war of aggression against Finland: 105 days in which the state with the world's largest army tried to subdu…
Read →Why the Soviet empire collapsed
Why did an empire held together by the world's largest army, nuclear weapons and half a century of fear collapse? There is no single cause — historians argue about the weights to t…
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