Amidst an arguably exhaustive range of studies regarding ethno-politics in post-communist Estonia, this article sets out a new framework derived from Ian Lustick's model of ethnic control. We argue that one of the key reasons for ethnic peace and stability in Estonia over the past ten years has been a considerable degree of control instituted by the Estonian political community over its sizeable Russianspeaking minority. We analyse this control using Lustick's three main indicators of segmentation, dependence and co-optation. In addition, we differentiate within each of these categories between structural, institutional and programmatic levels of control measures. Our aim is to place Estonia into a better comparative perspective by bringing to light its particular configuration of control mechanisms. The article concludes with an assessment of what this configuration might mean for future ethnopolitical developments.* The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to Sammy Smooha for many thoughtprovoking discussions regarding the topic of ethnic control as well as for his direct assistance in the writing of this article. We are also indebted to three anonymous reviewers, whose insightful comments helped us to re®ne our analysis. An initial version of this article was presented at the
More than twenty years after the fall of communism, many countries in Central and Eastern Europe are still seeking truth and justice for the repression suffered under communist rule. This search has been particularly notable in the Baltic states, given the three countries' histories as both former Soviet republics and later member-states of the European Union. On the one hand, the legacy of Stalinist oppression was more severe in these countries than elsewhere in Central Europe, but on the other hand much of this past could more easily be externalized onto the former Soviet Union (and by extension Russia) following re-independence. Transitional and Retrospective Justice in the Baltic States develops a novel conceptual framework in order to understand the politics involved with transitional and retrospective justice, and then applies this outline to the Baltic states to analyse more systematic patterns of truth- and justice-seeking in the post-communist world.
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