Syllabus
1. Literature; ethnogenesis of Estonians and Latvians 2.
Medieval Livonia 3. Consequences od the Reformation an struggle for Livonia 4.
Anexation of Livonia to Russia; question of serfdom in the Baltic provinces 5.Eastonian and Latvian national awaking in context of modernization 6. The WW I and foundation of independent states 7.
Internal conditions and policy, parlamentarism and authoritarian regimes 8. The Baltic states in context of inter-war European policy 9.
Soviet annexation and the WWII 10. Soviet republics 11.
The national and state emancipation process and renewal of independence
Annotation
The course deals with problems of continuity and discontinuity of Estonian and Latvian history. It is focused on explanation of historical relationship of national and state emancipation process of Estonians and Latvians and diachronic comparison.