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The Soviet West Revisited: Individual and Collective Agency in the Estonian SSR

November 18, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
160 Enarson Classroom Building

Join the History Department, Mershon Center for International Security studies, the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Estonian American National Council for a special symposium on the everyday experience of Soviet Power in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) in the 1960s and 1970s. Join us as Dr. Karsten Brüggemann, Dr. Kristo Nurmis, and Airi Uuna from Tallinn University present their research on the national particularities and transnational commonalities of life in th Soviet "west". They will disuss the function of Soviet propaganda in the Estonian SSR and the role of marketing in a command economy through the Soviet-Estonian advertising company, ERF.

Speakers:

Dr. Karsten Brüggemann, Tallinn University

Dr. Kristo Nurmis, Tallinn University

Airi Uuna, Tallinn University

This event is free and open to the public.
If you have any questions about accessibility or wish to request accommodations, please contact Tara Godwin at godwin.73@osu.edu.