The coloniser and the colonised : Estonia in a process of transition : An inquiry to what extent the Estonian government is able to diminish the colonial structures that have been institutionalised in the Soviet era
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2014-01
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This master thesis is researching to what extent the Estonian government is able to diminish the still existing
Soviet structures that are present in the country. These structures are everywhere in the Estonian society. Place
names, language, symbols, migrants, economic dependency are all expressions of these structures. After the
restoration of Estonian independence in 1991, the Estonian government has made a ‘restorational policy’. This
means that the aim is to create an Estonian society that mirrors the Estonian society of before the Soviet occupation
as much as possible. The focus will be on to what extent the Estonian government is able to diminish these
structures by using the border, identity and territory as a tool. The policy of post colonial making of the Estonian
government can be hampered by multiple actors however, such as the Russian government, the European Union
(EU) or the Russian minority in Estonia.
The aim of this of this master thesis is to get new a new holistic and integral insight to what extent the government
of Estonia is able to lose these colonial structures, in order to analyse to what extent the Estonian government
is able to implement this policy. In order to be able to reach this aim a main research question has been
formulated:
Main question: To what extent is Estonia capable of becoming more independent in social, political, cultural
and economic realms from its former coloniser, the Soviet Union (now Russia), by erasing, influencing or altering
the structures that have been laid in the colonial Soviet era (1944-1991) by exploiting their national border?
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen