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The genesis of modern Baltic nations and the nobility in the end of XVIII - first half of XIX c. (A comparative historical analysis)

open access: yesLietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 1997
This article applies a comparative method for studying the role of the nobility in the formation of modern Baltic nations in order to elucidate the factors, which determined role differences.
Saulius Pivoras
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AMBER COAST IN THE AGE OF ATTILA

open access: yesВестник Брянского государственного университета, 2022
The evidence presented in the article from archaeological and written sources consistently shows the participation of Germanic and Baltic inhabitants of the vicinity of the river delta.
Kulakov V.I.
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The Emergence of New States in Eastern Europe after World War I: The German Impact

open access: yesTalTech Journal of European Studies, 2021
After World War I, many borders in Europe were redrawn, especially in the northeast and southeast of Germany. Almost all political forces in Germany strived to restore the prewar German borders, especially towards Poland. Even Poland’s very existence was
Ziemer Klaus
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Activities of Āgenskalns Gymnastics and Sports Society and Its Headquarters at 7 Baldones Street

open access: yesHistory of Engineering Sciences and Institutions of Higher Education, 2021
Āgenskalns Gymnastics and Sports Society was one of the largest and best-known Baltic-German sports organizations in the first half of the 20th century.
Rita Apine
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ESTONIAN MODERN HISTORY IN THE TWENTY­-FIRST CENTURY [PDF]

open access: yesActa Historica Tallinnensia, 2020
This article presents a short overview of Estonian and international research on the nineteenth century in Estonia during the decades since the re­establishment of independence in 1991, with a focus on work published in the twenty­first century.
Karsten Brüggemann   +1 more
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Climate Change in the Baltic Sea : 2021 Fact Sheet [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Climate change effects on the Baltic Sea environment are manifold. It is for example expected that water temperature and sea level will rise, and sea ice cover will decrease.
Lips, Urmas   +77 more
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LITERACY IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY: THE STRIKING CASE OF THE BALTIC PROVINCES; pp. 65–77 [PDF]

open access: yesActa Historica Tallinnensia, 2017
This article focuses on the unique position of the Baltic Provinces of Estland, Livland, and Kurland in terms of literacy rates in the Russian Empire in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
Toivo U. RAUN
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VIOLENCE AND ACTIVISM IN THE BALTIC PROVINCES DURING THE REVOLUTION OF 1905; pp. 48–59 [PDF]

open access: yesActa Historica Tallinnensia, 2006
This article focuses on the phenomena of violence and activism in the Baltic Provinces during 1905. The level of violence was substantially greater in the Latvian areas than in the Estonians ones for the following reasons: more advanced economic ...
Toivo U. Raun
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“Pro-Raphaelites”: The Classical Ideal in Religious Art and the Agency of Artworks in Estonia from 1810 to 1840

open access: yesArts, 2023
This article analyzes Baltic German religious art based on examples from Estonia in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on artistic networks and the reclamation of a Renaissance classical ideal.
Liisa-Helena Lumberg-Paramonova
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Christine Jencken’s Großmutters Erzählung (Grandmother’s Story) and the Aspect of Power in Baltic-German Autobiographical Writing

open access: yesInterlitteraria, 2014
This paper aims to offer a postcolonial reading of an un published autobiography Großmutters Erzählung (Grandmother’s Story, 1869) by Christine Jencken. The author was born into a family of Baltic-German old nobility.
Maris Saagpakk
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