Past. Special Issue on the History of Estonia

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There has been published the first issue of the historical culture magazine "Tuna" titled "Past" in English. The magazine's first English-language compilation represents an overview of the works and analyses of several Estonian historians studying different historical periods. The issue provides a very brief bird's-eye view of the last thousand years of Estonian history. Since "Tuna" is a scholarly magazine, this compilation is meant primarily for our colleagues throughout the world, as well as for all others who wish to discover Estonia and to understand Estonians' current endeavours and fears through understanding the past of this people and country. Contents: Ivar Leimus: Millennium Breakthrough. North goes West; Marek Tamm: When did the Dominicans Arrive in Tallinn? Anti Selart: The Orthodox Monastery in Tartu during the Livonian War; Enn Küng: Postal Relations between Riga and Moscow in the Second Half of the 17th Century; Indrek Jürjo: The Book Trade in Tallinn during the Century of Enlightenment; Marten Seppel, Credit Relations in the Paternalistic Rhetoric of Baltic German Landlords; Toivo Raun: The Estonian Engagement with Modernity: The Role of Young-Estonia in the Diversification of Political and Social Thought; Aleksander Loit: Attitudes and Activities of the Baltic German Knighthoods during Estonia's Move toward Independence 1918-1920; Jaak Valge: Konstantin Päts's Relations with the Tallinn Soviet Embassy and Trade Representation in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s; Tõnu Tannberg: Moscow's Institutional and Nomenclatural Control Mechanisms in the Estonian SSR during the Post-War Years.