Celebrating Final Victory in Estonia’s ‘Great Battle for Freedom’: The Short Afterlife of 23 June 1919 as National Holiday, 1934–1939

Brüggemann, Karsten

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“…Karsten Brüggemann on märkinud, et kuigi Võnnu lahingu võit ei omanud Vabadussõja lõplikus tulemuses kuigi suurt rolli, sai siiski sellest sündmusest kogu rahvusliku vabadusvõitluse võidu sümbol. 46 Nagu juba Jüriöö puhul mainitud, oli rahvuslike tähtpäevade kehtestamine osa riikliku identiteedi kujundamisest. Minevikusündmuste mälestamise puhul on eelkõige oluline nende sümboolne tähendus ja seetõttu ei saa öelda, et rahvuslikud pühad kehastavad täpselt neid ajaloolisi sündmusi, mida nad on loodud mälestama.…”

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Kolm tuld: Jüriöö, võidupüha, laulupidu [Abstract: Three fires: St. George’s Night, Victory Day and the Song Festival]

Allandi¹

2014

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Rituaale on rahvusliku identiteedi konstrueerijatena läbi ajaloo rohkesti kasutatud. Erinevad mälestusüritused, tähtpäevade tähistamised jne, millel on rituaalile omased tunnused, on kindlaks viisiks luua ühtsustunnet, seda taaskinnitada, kuid neid saab kasutada ka ideoloogilistel eesmärkidel. Rituaalsed tegevused funktsioneerivad eelkõige rahvuslike sümbolitena -ühistegevused, mis kannavad edasi kultuurimälu ja ka sisalduvad selles, on regulaarse toimumise ja sümbolite kasutamisega rahvusliku identiteedi tugisambad. Nende sümboolne olemus seisneb üle aegade ulatuvas tähenduses ja tähenduslikkuses kogukonna liikmetele. Tseremoniaalne ja sümboolne aspekt on kõige olulisem rahvusliku identiteedi edukuses ja säilimises, kuna läbi selle on individuaalne identiteet tugevasti seotud kollektiivse identiteediga. Ja seda just sümboolsete ja rituaalsete aspektide seotuse tõttu etniliste sidemete ja etnilise identifitseerimise taaselustamisega ning eriti esiisade ja langenute mälestamisega.

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Kolm tuld: Jüriöö, võidupüha, laulupidu [Abstract: Three fires: St. George’s Night, Victory Day and the Song Festival]

Allandi¹

2014

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“… 6. The period finds an indirect representation through the limited reinstatement of the ‘authoritarian period’ instituted calendrical days, prominently ‘Victory Day’ in Estonia (see Brüggemann, 2015). …”

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Revisiting the social organisation of national memory: A look at the calendars of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

Andrejevs

2018

Memory Studies

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This article presents a study of the social organisation of the national memories of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (the Baltic states). It draws inspiration from and expands the scope of the application of Eviatar Zerubavel's largely unexplored methodological tools for the study of calendars. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is threefold. First, this paper offers an application of the above tools to the case of the Baltic states. Second, by doing so it provides an overview of comparative patterns within Baltic calendars. Third, it is argued that by exposing the social organisation of national memory, this approach offers insight into silences, providing an entry point for an engagement with amnesiology, as coined by Liedeke Plate.

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“…Today we can say that there were at least three core events that stabilized the support for the national administration: (1) driving the Red Army out of its territory during spring 1919; (2) the successful elections to a Constituent Assembly that resulted in a strong socialist majority; (3) the Estonian victory on 23 June 1919 at Cēsis against the Baltic German Landeswehr which, after having liberated Riga from the Stučka administration, aimed to chase the Red Army. Especially the unexpected victory against the Landeswehr boosted patriotism because it was celebrated as the final victory over the German arch‐enemy (Brüggemann :193–201, ). What we still have to ask is how this change of loyalty away from the Russian Empire, in whose name, after all, Estonians and Latvians had fought the Great War, towards the national government of tiny republics surrounded by much bigger adversaries eventually occurred on an individual level.…”

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Yearning for Social Change: The Russian Revolution in the Baltic Provinces

Brüggemann

2017

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In general, histories of the Russian Revolution do not touch upon events in the Baltic provinces of the empire in any detail. Only the apparently exceptionally large number of Latvians who supported the Bolsheviks in the election to the Russian Constituent Assembly (72%) is mentioned. This paper argues with Ronald G. Suny's typologization of imperial ethnic groups according to their relationship to ‘class’ and ‘nationalism’ in order to qualify the latter's conclusion that the Latvians in 1917 turned towards Bolshevism whereas the Estonians moved towards nationalism. In fact, closer investigation proves that the difference was not so clear cut. There was certainly much sympathy for social revolution in the littoral as a whole, as had been proven in the elections in late 1917, but there was no sympathy for class war. The emergence of a nationally oriented Estonian and Latvian social democracy ultimately covered the gap between ‘revolutionaries’ and ‘nationalists’ and paved the way to the foundation of nation‐states. Thus in both cases, this article argues, ‘class’ and ‘nationalism’ reinforced each other, rather than operating as antagonistic categories.

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Celebrating Final Victory in Estonia’s ‘Great Battle for Freedom’: The Short Afterlife of 23 June 1919 as National Holiday, 1934–1939

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Kolm tuld: Jüriöö, võidupüha, laulupidu [Abstract: Three fires: St. George’s Night, Victory Day and the Song Festival]

Kolm tuld: Jüriöö, võidupüha, laulupidu [Abstract: Three fires: St. George’s Night, Victory Day and the Song Festival]

Revisiting the social organisation of national memory: A look at the calendars of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

Yearning for Social Change: The Russian Revolution in the Baltic Provinces

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