Estonian Community Houses as Local Tools for the Development of Estonian Cultural Policy

2013

The sovietization of Estonian community houses (Rahvamaja): Soviet guidelines

2014

Estonian Community houses were built in towns and the countryside by local people, who joined cultural and other societies since the second half of the 19th century. These cultural centers supported the process of Estonian state building. During the years of the first Estonian independent state (1918–1940), the network of community houses was set up by the state. After the invasion of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union in 1940, extensive restructuring or sovietization of the Estonian public administration, economy and culture, began. The article examines the sovietization process of Estonian community houses, i.e., how they were turned into the ideological tools of Soviet totalitarian pr…

The historical formation and development of Estonian cultural policy : tracing the development of Estonian community houses (rahvamaja)

2015

On the Historical Periodisation of Estonian cultural Policy

2008

This article presents one possible periodisation of Estonian cultural policy, dividing it into a series of eras. The article claims neither to cover every detail nor by far to be final, but it is the first attempt to delimit and determine different periods of cultural policy in Estonia. Artiklis on esitatud Eesti kultuuripoliitika üks võimalikke periodiseeringuid. Sissejuhatavas osas on arutletud periodiseerimise kui ajalookirjutuses kasutatava meetodi sisu ja põhjendatuse üle. Seejärel on avatud kultuuripoliitikaga seotud mõisteid selle artikli kontekstis ja kirjeldatud üle­vaat­likult Eesti kultuuripoliitika erinevaid perioode. Artikli kokkuvõttes on esile toodud seosed prae­guse Eesti ku…