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Article: Estonia in transition.
- Article from:
- World Affairs
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Estonia today is an exciting, beautiful, truly European country and an independent, rather smoothly-functioning democracy. Thus, it is easily forgotten that a little over a thousand days ago, she was still a Soviet "republic," and not long before that, anyone who would have predicted the present situation would have been laughed out of court.(1)
The transition from colony of a totalitarian empire to pluralistic free-market democracy has been swift and successful. The economic aspect especially has found some positive attention in Western media and scholarship. And while Estonia is not yet "home safe," she is closer than all other former Soviet republics and on par ...