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Notwithstanding the Estonian national revival and subsequent secession, the presence of a relatively large Russian minority in Estonia, and the overwhelming power of the Russian-dominated USSR and later of the Russian Federation, the national conflict in Estonia remained non-violent. Thus, the relationship between Estonians and Russians in Estonia illustrates that national conflicts do not necessarily escalate.
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© 1997 Søren Rinder Bollerup and Christian Dons Christensen
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Bollerup, S.R., Christensen, C.D. (1997). The National Conflict in Estonia. In: Nationalism in Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373822_13
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