Estonia 1940–1945: Reports of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity (Tallinn: Estonian Foundation for Investigating Crimes Against Humanity, 2006), xxx + 1337 pp., cloth 127.00
The word “monumental” appears infrequently in book reviews, and usually without much justification. Yet for Estonia 1940–1945, the adjective is justified: the product of seven years' work by a team of historians, this is truly a massive tome—anything but light reading. In the late 1990s, as Est...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 321-323 |
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| Summary: | The word “monumental” appears infrequently in book reviews, and usually without much justification. Yet for Estonia 1940–1945, the adjective is justified: the product of seven years' work by a team of historians, this is truly a massive tome—anything but light reading. In the late 1990s, as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were striving for membership in both the European Union and NATO, their Euro-Atlantic partners encouraged the Baltic states to come to terms with the darker chapters in their recent past, and in particular the thorny issue of the Holocaust., Special commissions of historians and other experts were duly set up under the auspices of the presidents and governments of all three countries. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm030 |