Tõnu Tannberg

Literary and cultural life in Soviet times

Foreword

Jaan Undusk

Linguistic discourse of Stalinism

Environment and heredity

Elle-Mari Talivee

Depiction of the oil shale industry in Looming magazine between 1940 and 1956

Tõnu Tannberg

“The man can see! Can write!”

The Stalin Prize as a tool for the Sovietization of literary life on the example on Hans Leberecht

Olev Liivik

The literary nomenklatura of Soviet Estonia

CC ECP nomenklatura and the managers of literary life in the Soviet Republic

Tiiu Kreegipuu

Party control over Soviet Estonian literary life in the 1960s on the example of the Writers’ Union

Eve Annuk

Literary consultants at the Writers’ Union of the Estonian SSR as gatekeepers

Tiina Saluvere

Kaarel Ird and Vanemuine in the context of Soviet cultural policy

Johanna Ross

Ridiculous and uncomfortable: Women philologists in late Soviet Estonian culture

Epp Annus

Human being as a natural body

The perceptual worlds of Estonian literature from the 1960s to the 1980s

Anu Raudsepp

Early foreign travel of Soviet Estonian writers during the Khrushchev Thaw in the context of national security policy

Aigi Rahi-Tamm

1960 Estonian Song Festival as a source of unity and division between Estonian communities home and abroad

Maarja Vaino

Literary education in Soviet schools

Books

Inga Sapunjan

A masterful taming of times

Sirje Olesk. Aegade lugu. Kirjanike liit Eesti NSV-s. Tallinn: Eesti Kirjanike Liit, 2022. 303 lk.

Olaf Mertelsmann

A limited perspective on the Writers' Union in the Estonian SSR

Sirje Olesk. Aegade lugu. Kirjanike liit Eesti NSV-s. Tallinn: Eesti Kirjanike Liit, 2022. 303 lk.