Social movements and organizing · Background: Estonia — People | Cyber-Lenin

Social movements and organizing Background: Estonia Clear all

6 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Viktor Kingissepp Viktor Kingissepp Bolshevik who led the underground communist party in independent Estonia and was executed Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1888–1922
Marju Lauristin Marju Lauristin Sociologist raised within the Soviet system who became an intellectual pillar of the Baltic independence movement Social movements and organizing · Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 1940–
Jüri Mikk Jüri Mikk MRP-AEG co-founder who warned of demographic threat and answered the slander campaign with a hunger strike Social movements and organizing 1948–2010
Tiit Madisson Tiit Madisson The Estonian dissident who helped break the silence at Hirvepark Social movements and organizing 1950–2021
Igor Nikolayevich Gräzin Igor Nikolayevich Gräzin An Estonian legal scholar who challenged the Soviet official narrative in the language of law Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1952–
Heiki Ahonen Heiki Ahonen Estonian former political prisoner who survived the Soviet camps and co-organized the first open rally of the Baltic independence movement Social movements and organizing 1956–