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The Last Train from Estonia

Author : Jaak Jurison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692619902
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Last Train from Estonia written by Jaak Jurison and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the Soviet Army occupied Estonia in 1940, a boy's beloved father is arrested and sent to prison in Siberia, never to be seen again by his son. Soon the Germans will roll across the border . . . This gripping memoir of life in World War Two-era Europe gives eloquent testimony to the realities of being caught in the fighting between the armies of two ruthless dictators, Hitler and Stalin. Through the eyes of the observant young man he once was, the author vividly recounts events large and small, the intensely personal and the geopolitically significant. We feel the deprivations and uncertainties of foreign occupation, existence upended by forces impossible to anticipate. We feel the visceral fear of totalitarian authority, where home and person can be searched at any time and families deported to the desolate steppes of Siberia. Along with the author we experience devastating bomb attacks and two hazardous and thrilling escapes from the Red Army, one in Estonia, the other in Germany at the end of the war. We also learn how the author coped with the challenges of living in displaced persons camps in post-war Germany before immigrating to America. The Last Train from Estonia is a story of survival, of resilience and ingenuity, of love and luck, lives changed forever by hard choices made under extraordinary circumstances. This compelling account, written with long perspective, is more than mere witness to history. In its parallels to present-day conflicts in Eastern Europe, it serves as a timely warning to all who love freedom.

Estonia

Author : Neil Taylor
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1787383377
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Estonia written by Neil Taylor and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Russia rattles its sabres in the Baltic, Neil Taylor reconsiders the history of Estonia and its struggle to achieve statehood.

Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins

Author : Andrey Makarychev
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004513795
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins written by Andrey Makarychev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Andrey Makarychev approaches populism through a critical biopolitical lens and shows that populist narratives are grounded intrinsically in corporeality, sexuality, health, bodily life and religious practices. The author demonstrates that populism is a phenomenon deeply rooted in mass culture. He compares three countries -- Estonia, Ukraine and Russia--that all share post-Soviet experiences offering a broad spectrum of populist discourses. The three case studies display the interconnection between biopower and populism through references to culture, media, art, theatrical performances and literature, raising new questions and directions for understanding traditional accounts of populism. This work was supported by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 822682: "Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism – POPREBEL".

Resilient Voices

Author : Ramona Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100039770X
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Resilient Voices written by Ramona Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aftermath of World War II sent thousands of Estonian refugees into Europe. The years of Estonian independence (1917-1940) had given them a taste of freedom and so relocation to displaced person (DP) camps in post-war Germany was extremely painful. One way in which Estonians dealt with the chaos and trauma of WWII and its aftermath was through choral singing. Just as song festivals helped establish national identity in 1869, song festivals promoted cultural cohesiveness for Estonians in WWII displaced person camps. A key turning point in hope for the Estonian DPs was the 1947 Augsburg Song Festival, which is the center point of this book. As Estonian DPs dispersed to Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States these choirs and song festivals gave Estonians the resilience to retain their identity and to thrive in their new homes. This history of Estonian WWII DP camp choirs and song festivals is gathered from the stories of many courageous individuals and filled with the tenacious spirit of the Estonian singing culture. This work contributes to an understanding of immigration, identity, and resilience and is particularly important within the field of music regarding music and healing, music and identity, historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music and politics.

Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1760341444
Total Pages : 843 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Soak up history in Estonia's Old Towns, enjoy a midsummer bonfire and beer in Lithuania and take a traditional sauna and spa in Latvia; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania and begin your journey now! Inside the Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania Travel Guide: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, landscape, architecture, greetings, etiquette Over 70 maps Covers Estonia, Tallinn, Lahemaa National Park, Rakvere, Narva, Tartu, Valga, Muhu, Saaremaa, Helsinki, Latvia, R?ga, Kurzeme, J?rmala, Kemeri National Park, Talsi, Lithuania, Vilnius, Paneriai, Trakai, Kalingrad and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania, our most comprehensive guide to the region, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet Eastern Europe for a comprehensive look at all these countries have to offer Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards winner in Favorite Travel Guide category for 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Last Train Home

Author : George Simonis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557096685
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Last Train Home written by George Simonis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fond remembrance of a love affair that began in the suburbs of Chicago in the 1950's, and found new life as the two lovers found each other again.

Last Train to Auschwitz

Author : Sarah Federman
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299331709
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Last Train to Auschwitz written by Sarah Federman and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the French National Railways Corporation (SNCF) deported 75,000 people to Nazi death camps. Last Train to Auschwitz delves into the many roles of the French railways during the Holocaust. Poignant stories of survivors mixed with contemporary legal debates illuminate a company's amends for human rights violations.

Estonia

Author : Alexander Theroux
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606994654
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Estonia written by Alexander Theroux and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any journey with Alexander Theroux is an education. Possessed of a razor-sharp and hyperliterate mind, he stands beside Thomas Pynchon as one of the sharpest cultural commentators of our time. So when he decided to accompany his wife ― the artist Sarah Son-Theroux ― on her Fulbright Scholarship to Estonia, it occasioned this penetrating examination of a country that, for many, seems alien and distanced from the modern world. For Theroux, the country and its people become a puzzle. His fascination with their language, manners, and legacy of occupation and subordination lead him to a revelatory examination of Estonia’s peculiar place in European history. All the while, his trademark acrobatic allusions, quotations, and digressions ― which take us fromHamlet through Jean Cocteau to Married… with Children ― render his travels as much internal and psychical as they are external and physical. Through these obsessive references to Western culture, we come to appreciate how insular the country has become, yet also marvel at its fierce individuality and preternatural beauty ― such is the skill of Theroux’s gaze. This travelogue of his nine months abroad also brims with anecdotes of Theroux’s encounters with Estonian people and ― in some of its most bitterly comedic episodes ― his fellow Americans whom he at times feels more alienated from than the frosty, humorless Europeans. Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery is as biting and satirical as it is witty and urbane; as curious and lyrical as it is brash and irreverent. It marks a new highlight in an already stellar career and a book that continues Fantagraphics’ exceptional line of prose works.

My Estonia: Passport Forgery, Meat Jelly Eaters, and Other Stories

Author : Justin Petrone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789949901548
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book My Estonia: Passport Forgery, Meat Jelly Eaters, and Other Stories written by Justin Petrone and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people have said this book is romantic and maybe it is: a young lost American college grad falls in love with an intriguing European journalist and embarks on a journey that restores his faith in himself and the world. Sure, it is romantic. But it was never easy. A foreigner arrives in the middle of a dark winter and must survive in Estonia, the "least fortunate Scandinavian country," a land where people eat blood sausage and jellied meat, drink warm bread, and are always on time; a place where every family is haunted by the past and is struggling to catch up to the present. Over the course of one year, so much happens in this tiny northern land that it stops being foreign. Estonia and the college grad turned journalist become intimately acquianted. Inseparable. And in the end, he comes to love it, even when they do not want to let him back into their country.

Last Train Over Rostov Bridge

Author : Aten, Marion & Orrmont, Arthur
Publisher : Ashgrove Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1853984051
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Last Train Over Rostov Bridge written by Aten, Marion & Orrmont, Arthur and published by Ashgrove Publishing. This book was released on with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Estonia and the Estonians

Author : Toivo U. Raun
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817928537
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Estonia and the Estonians written by Toivo U. Raun and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estonia and the Estonians provides the first compendious survey in any language of Estonian history, from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century. Estonia's strategic geopolitical location—a crossroads where the major powers of northeastern Europe have struggled for influence—and the small number of ethnic Estonians are crucial factors that have shaped the history of the area and its inhabitants. The book emphasizes the period since the mid-nineteenth century, when a national movement calling for Estonian cultural and political autonomy began to emerge. During the two world wars, Estonia gained and lost political self-determination. Yet a modern Estonian culture was firmly established, and a strong sense of national identity survived the Soviet era.

Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street

Author : Indrek Hargla
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720618908
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street written by Indrek Hargla and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tallinn, 1419. What links the Keeper of the Tower, a prostitute and a Flemish painter to a haunted house on Rataskaevu Street? All three claim to have seen a ghost near the house, and each is found dead soon afterwards. Melchior Wakenstede, apothecary and assistant bailiff, is charged with unearthing the truth. With a cultivated sense for justice, Melchior investigates the deaths and attempts to find out whether, as the denizens of medieval Tallinn believe, ghosts can reap their revenge upon the living. When a powerful merchant dies, Melchior perceives a corporeal connection between this and the other deaths. As Melchior becomes embroiled in the conflicts and rivalries between religious orders, merchant guilds and Teutonic Knights, all vying with one another for control of the town, what he discovers is more incredible and more terrible than any ghost.

The Woman of a Thousand Names

Author : Alexandra Lapierre
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 1501197916
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Woman of a Thousand Names written by Alexandra Lapierre and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally bestselling author of the “fascinating epic” (Associated Press) Between Love and Honor comes a rich, sweeping tale based on the captivating true story of the Mata Hari of Russia, featuring a beautiful aristocrat fighting for survival during the deadly upheaval of the Russian Revolution. Born into Russian aristocracy, wealth, and security, Moura never had any reason to worry. But in the upheaval of the Bolshevik Revolution, her entire world crumbles. As her family and friends are being persecuted by Vladimir Lenin’s ruthless police, she falls into a passionate affair with British secret agent Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. But when he’s abruptly and mysteriously deported from Russia, Moura is left alone and vulnerable. Now, she must find new paths for her survival, even if it means shedding her past and taking on new identities. Some will praise her tenderness and undying loyalty. Others will denounce her lies. But all will agree on one point: Moura embodies Life. Life at all cost. Set against the volatile landscape of 20th-century Russia, The Woman of a Thousand Names brings history to vivid life in a captivating tale about an extraordinary woman caught in the waves of change—with only her wits to save her.

Estonia

Author : Piret Hiisjärv
Publisher : The Oliver Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781881508328
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Estonia written by Piret Hiisjärv and published by The Oliver Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, the tiny country of Estonia often fell prey to Vikings, Germans, Poles, Danes, Swedes, and Russians. It's no wonder that they've placed such an emphasis on maintaining their culture and traditions, as well as protecting their unspoiled natural areas and the unique wildlife that make those areas home. Book jacket.

Estonian Life Stories

Author : Rutt Hinrikus
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211752
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Estonian Life Stories written by Rutt Hinrikus and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains 25 selected life stories collected from Estonians who lived through the tribulations of the 20 century, and describe the travails of ordinary people under numerous regimes. The autobiographical accounts provide authentic perspectives on events of this period, where time is placed in the context of life-spans, and subjects grounded in personal experience. Most of the life stories reveal sufferings under foreign (Russian) oppression.

Piecework

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piecework written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sinking of the Estonia

Author : Hugh Hammond
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635684056
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Sinking of the Estonia written by Hugh Hammond and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about the 1994 sinking of the car ferry Estonia and the Russian mafia. While this is a work of fiction, the Estonia sinking actually happened. The characters in the book are fictitious. The author suggests a reason the sinking occurred, which is contrary to the official investigation. The thriller takes place in Estonia and the United Arab Emirates, with the main character a young CIA employee working out of the US Embassy.