Projects Baltic regionalism: Constructing Political Space(s) in Northern Europe, 1800-2000

The project studies the long-term formation of regional identities in Northern Europe. It focuses on a case study of the area of the current Baltic States.

Published on nordicspaces.com on April 28, 2010

It is a particularly fruitful subject for an analysis of the transformations of regional identity, as the region experienced radical transformations of state structures during the past centuries, without losing a sense of common identity in one form or another. The individual parts of the project follow how regional identity was constructed through various ideological devices at the ‘sub-national’ level within the conglomerate empires, what role this identity played when the nation states were founded in the aftermath of the World War I, how this identity then transformed to a ‘supra-national’ regional cooperation, to what extent the Baltic political space was preserved during the Soviet occupation and what role perceptions of this region played in Cold War politics. The aim of the project is to contribute both to the historical knowledge of the broader Nordic region and to the theoretical understanding of the formation of states and state-systems.

Pärtel Piirimäe presents the project:

Members

Eero Medijainen, University of Tartu, eero.medijainen@ut.ee

Kari Alenius, University of Oulu
kari.alenius@oulu.fi

Andres Andresen, University of Tartu
andres.andresen@ut.ee

Lea Leppik, University of Tartu
lea.leppik@ut.ee

Vahur Made, University of Tartu
vahur@edk.edu.ee

Olaf Mertelsmann, University of Tartu
olaf.mertelsmann@ut.ee

Pärtel Piirimäe, University of Tartu
partel.piirimae@ut.ee

Publications

Alenius, Kari, With Anita Honkala, Sinikka Wunsch (ed.), Itämeren Italaidalla II. On the Eastern Edge of the Baltic Sea II. Borders and Intergration in the History of the Fenno-Baltic Region (Studia Historica Septentrionalia 58) (Rovaniemi 2009). 

Alenius, Kari, “‘Dishonest Estonians bear the responsibility for the failure’. The image of the Estonian-Russian border negotiations in 2005 conveyed by Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, in Imagology and Cross-Cultural Encounters in History, ed. by Kari Alenius, Olavi K. Fält, Markus Mertaniemi (Studia Historica Septentrionalia 56 (Rovaniemi 2008), 305-316. 

Alenius, Kari, “Estonian Border Region Policy between the World Wars”, in Itämeren Italaidalla II. On the Eastern Edge of the Baltic Sea II. Borders and  

Intergration in the History of the Fenno-Baltic Region (Studia Historica Septentrionalia 58) (Rovaniemi 2009), 217-232. 

Alenius, Kari, “The Winter War (1939-40) in the eyes of the Estonians”, in The Winter War (1939-40) as an Experience, ed. by Kari Alenius et al. (Studia Historica Septentrionalia 61) (Rovaniemi 2010). 

Alenius, Kari, “The Estonians’ separation from Russianism in the early 1920s”, Journal of Baltic Studies, Special issue (2010). 

Andresen, Andres, Eestimaa kirikukorraldus 1710–1832. Riigivõimu mõju institutsioonidele ja õigusele [Estland’s ecclesiastical organisation 1710–1832. The influence of the state on church institutions and law] (Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2008). 

Andresen, Andres, “The Reconfiguration of Lutheran Church Organisation in the Baltic Region from the 1520s until 1917”, in CLIOHRES.net Thematic Work Group 1: States, Legislation, Institutions, Vol. IV, Institutional Change and Stability: Conflicts, Transitions and Social Values, ed. by Andreas Gémes, Florencia Peyrou, Ioannis Xydopoulos (Pisa: Pisa University Press 2009), 35-47. 

Andresen, Andres, “Luterlik territoriaalkirik ja poliitiline võim: kirikukorralduse struktuurimuutused Eestimaal 1561-1766 [Lutheran Territorial Church and Political Power: Structural Changes in Estland’s Ecclesiastical Organisation in 1561-1766]”, in Läänemere provintside arenguperspektiivid Rootsi suurriigis 16/17. sajandil, ed. Enn Küng (Eesti Ajalooarhiivi toimetised 17 (24)) (Tartu: Eesti Ajalooarhiiv, 2009), 55-80. 

Andresen, Andres, “The Implementation of Swedish Church Law in 18th-Century Estland”, in CLIOHRES.net Thematic Work Group 1: States, Legislation, Institutions, Vol. III, Making, Using and Resisting the Law in European History, ed. by Günther Lottes, Eero Medijainen, Jón Vi•ar Sigur•sson (Pisa: Pisa University Press 2008), 131-143. 

Andresen, Andres, “Religious Tolerance in the Early Modern Conglomerate State. The Case of Estland 1561-1801“, in Rund um die Meere des Nordens. Festschrift für Hain Rebas, hrsg. von M. Engelbrecht, U. Hanssen-Decker, D. Höffker (Heyde: Boyens Buchverlag, 2008), 13-22. 

Andresen, Andres, With Branco Beslin, Wolfgang Göderle, Zoltan Gyore, Stephen Jacobson, Mario Muigg, Ioannis Xydopoulos, “What is a Region? Regions in European History”, in CLIOHRES.net Thematic Work Group 1: States, Legislation, Institutions, Vol. V (Pisa: Pisa University Press 2010). (Forthcoming) 

Andresen, Andres, “Researching the Base of the Baltic Regional Identity: Formal Stipulation and Practical Implementation of Religious Privileges in Estland, Livland and Kurland under Russian supremacy”, Journal of Baltic Studies, Special issue (2010). (Forthcoming)A commented source publication of the 1686 Swedish Church Law together with the relevant special ordinances for Estland and Livland, with Estonian translation (2010). (Forthcoming) 

Leppik , Lea , “Social Mobility and Career Patterns of Estonian Intellectuals in the Russian Empire”, Historical Social Research, 33:2 (2008), 42-62. Leppik , Lea , “Research at the University of Tartu at the Swedish times [in Estonian]”, Tartu Ülikooli ajaloo küsimusi XXXVII (Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2009), 20-38. 

Leppik , Lea , With Reet Mägi, “University museums – for whom and for what? [in Estonian]”, Akadeemia 2009:4, 809-827. 

Leppik , Lea , “Academic institutions in the Republic of Estonia, 1918-1940 [in Estonian]”, Ajalooline Ajakiri. The Estonian Historical Journal 126:4 (2008), 333-361. 

Leppik , Lea , “Baltisches Welterlebnis. Die kulturgeschichtliche Bedeutung von Alexander, Eduard und Hermann Graf Keyserling”, Tuna. Ajalookultuuri ajakiri 2008:3, 133-137. 

Leppik , Lea , “The Provincial Reform of Catherine the Great and the Baltic Common Identity”, Journal of Baltic Studies, Special issue (2010). (Forthcoming) 

Made, Vahur, (ed.) With John Hiden, David J. Smith, The Baltic Question during the Cold War (Cold War History Series 20) (Routledge 2008). 

Made, Vahur, “The Estonian Government-in-Exile: a Controversial Project of State Continuation [in Estonian], in Sõna jõul: diasporaa roll Eesti iseseisvuse taastamisel, ed. by K. Anniste, K. Kumer-Haukanõmm, T. Tammaru (Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2008), 73-87. 

Made, Vahur, “The possibilities of foreign policy within fading security: Estonian foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s and the competing world orders [in Estonian]”, Tuna 2008:1, 52-58. 

Made, Vahur,  “Finland and the Baltic Question During the Cold War: a Non-Declaration Policy”, Journal of Baltic Studies, Special issue (2010). (Forthcoming) 

Medijainen, Eero, “The USA, Soviet Russia and the Baltic States: from recognition to the Cold War”, in The Baltic Question During the Cold War, ed. by J. Hiden, V. Made, D. J. Smith (Routledge 2008), 21-32. 

Medijainen, Eero, “James Bond’s last mission: Sidney Reilly and the Coup d’etat in Tallinn of 1924”, Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies, 2 (2008), 7-22. 

Medijainen, Eero, “‘New Diplomacy’ and the Formation of Estonia’s Foreign Service”, in CLIOHRES.net Thematic Work Group 1: States, Legislation, Institutions, Vol. IV, Institutional Change and Stability: Conflicts, Transitions and Social Values, ed. by Andreas Gémes, Florencia Peyrou, Ioannis Xydopoulos (Pisa: Pisa University Press 2009), 223-237. 

Medijainen, Eero,  “Article 5: The Permanent Neutrality in the Tartu Peace Treaty, 1920”, Journal of Baltic Studies 41 (2010). (Forthcoming) 

Medijainen, Eero, “Baltic Unity: perspectives for understanding”, Journal of Baltic Studies, Special issue (2010). (Forthcoming) 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , With Aigi Rahi-Tamm, “Cleansing and Compromise: the Estonian SSR in 1944-1945”, Cahiers du monde russe 49 (2008), 319-340. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Social and Oral History in Estonia”, East Central Europe 34-35 (2008), 63-80. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Der baltisch-russische Erinnerungsstreit”, in Erinnerungskultur und Versöhnungskitsch, hrsg. von H.H. Hahn, H. Hein-Kircher, A. Kochanowska-Nieborak, (Marburg: Verlag Herder-Institut 2008), 255-270. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Esutonia Gendaishi wo meguru ronsou”, in Hashimoto Nobuya (ed.), EU kakudaigo no Esutonia, Ratovia ni okeru kokka tougou to fukugou minzoku shakai keisei ni kannsuru kennkyuu (Kwansei Gakuin Daigaku 2009, 3), 161-164. (Japanese). 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “The Dispute about Estonian Contemporary History”, in National Integration and Formation of Multi-Ethnic Society: Experiences in Estonia and Latvia after EU Enlargement, ed. by N. Hashimoto, H. Komori (Nishinomiya: Kwansei Gakuin University 2009), 51-60. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Sovjetisoinnin käsitteestä”, in Kaiken takana oli pelko. Kuinka Viro menetti historiansa ja miten se saadan takaisin, ed. by Sofi Oksanen, Imbi Paju (Juva: WS Bookwell OY 2009), 25-43. (Finnish). 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Transition to Command Economy and Economic Exploitation: The Experience of Estonia 1940-1941”, in History of the Baltic Region of the 1940s-1980s, ed. by Dzintars Erglis (Riga: Latvijas vēstures institūta apgāds, 2009), 349-375. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Nõukogude majandusajaloo historiograafiast”, Ajalooline Ajakiri (2009), 263-278. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , With Aigi Rahi-Tamm, “Soviet mass violence in Estonia revisited”, Journal of Genocide Research 11 (2009), 307-322. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “The cost of transition from market to command economy: the case of Estonia”, Revista Romana pentru Studii Baltice si Nordice 1 (2009), 8-31. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Einleitung. Estlands Zeitgeschichte 1917-1991”, in Auswahlbibliographien zur Geschichte des Kommunismus in Osteuropa: Estland, hrsg. von Wiebke Jürgens (Berlin: OEZ-Berlin-Verlag, 2009), 13-37. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Searching for Reasons of the Forced Collectivization in the Baltic Republics, in Occupation Regimes in the Baltic States 1940-1991, ed. by D. Erglis (Riga: Latvijas vēstures institūta apgāds, 2009), 634-640. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Living on a Stalinist Kolkhoz: Peasant Survival Strategies in Estonia”, Daugavpils Universitate Humanitāro Zinātņu Vēstnesis (2009), No. 15, 83-94. 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Did Stalin turn Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into a Region?”, (Forthcoming) 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , (ed.) The Baltic States under Stalinist Rule (Cologne: Böhlau, 2010) (Das Baltikum in Geschichte und Gegenwart 4). (Forthcoming) 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , With Eero Medijainen (eds.), Border Changes in 20th Europe: Selected Case Studies (Münster: Lit-Verlag, 2010) (Tartu Studies in Contemporary History 1). (Forthcoming) 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Das ‘kleinere Übel’? Das ‘Generalkommissariat Estland’ im estnischen Vergangenheitsdiskurs, in: Das „Reichskommissariat Ostland“. Tatort und Erinnerungsobjekt: Konstruktionen. (Forthcoming) 

Mertelsmann , Olaf , “Der Weg zur Wiederherstellung der staatlichen Unabhängigkeit Estlands”, in A. Trunk (ed.): 1989 – Jahr der Wende im östlichen Europa. (Forthcoming) 

Piirimäe, Pärtel, (ed.) Uurimusi Vana-Liivimaa ajaloost. Studies in the history of medieval Livonia. Special issue of Ajalooline Ajakiri. The Estonian Historical Journal, no. 1-2 (123-124) (2008). 

Piirimäe, Pärtel, “Politics and history: an unholy alliance? Samuel Pufendorf as official historiographer”, in Rund um die Meere des Nordens. Festschrift für Hain Rebas, hrsg. von M. Engelbrecht, U. Hanssen-Decker, D. Höffker (Heyde: Boyens Buchverlag, 2008), 237-252. 

Piirimäe, Pärtel, “The Livonian Diet during the reign of Wolter von Plettenberg [in Estonian]”, in Uurimusi Vana-Liivimaa ajaloost. Studies in the history of medieval Livonia. Special issue of Ajalooline Ajakiri. The Estonian Historical Journal, no. 1-2 (123-124) (2008), 45-88.   

Piirimäe, Pärtel, “The Independence Manifesto as the Mirror of the Fundamental Values of Estonia [in Estonian]”, in Mõtestatud Eesti ühiseid väärtusi hoides, ed. Margit Sutrop and Triin Pisuke (Tartu: Tartu University Centre for Ethics, 2008), 33-40. 

Piirimäe, Pärtel, “Hans Sloane, Johann Amman and St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences [in Estonian]”, Akadeemia (2009), nr 4, 765-773. 

Piirimäe, Pärtel, “Johann Reinhold von Patkul’s polemical writings [in Estonian]”, in Läänemere provintside arenguperspektiivid Rootsi suurriigis 16/17. sajandil, ed. Enn Küng (Eesti Ajalooarhiivi toimetised 17 (24)) (Tartu: Eesti Ajalooarhiiv, 2009), 153-185. 

Piirimäe, Pärtel, “War and Polemics in Early Modern Europe,” in Exploring Cultural History. Essays in Honour of Peter Burke, ed. by Filippo de Vivo, Melissa Calaresu, Joan-Pau Rubies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010). (Forthcoming) 

Piirimäe, Pärtel, “The Westphalian Myth and the Idea of External Sovereignty”, in Sovereignty in Fragments: The Past, Present and Future of a Contested Concept, ed. by Hent Kalmo and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge University Press, 2010). (Forthcoming) 

Piirimäe, Pärtel, “The reception of natural law in seventeenth-century Tartu University”, in Early Modern University Idea, ed. by Lea Leppik, Pärtel Piirimäe. Special issue of Ajalooline Ajakiri. The Estonian Historical Journal (Issue 2, 2010). (Forthcoming) 

Piirimäe, Pärtel,“Baltic region in a Nordic empire? Debates on the relationship of Sweden to its Baltic provinces at the end of the seventeenth century”, Journal of Baltic Studies, Special issue (2010) (Forthcoming) 

Piirimäe, Pärtel, Chapters “Livland und Ingermanland” and “Estland”, in Das Baltikum. Geschichte einer europäischen Region, Bd. 2: Von der Auflösung der Ordensherrschaft bis 1918 From the dissolution of the Order of the Teutonic Knights to 1918 (2011) (Forthcoming)

Eero Medijainen

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