Kaarel Piirimäe is an Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu and a Senior Research Fellow at the Estonian War Museum.Olaf Mertelsmann is an Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu.

• Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War – Politics of history in Russia – Gorbachev, Perestroika and Glasnost – Atheism, and informal social networks – Soviet cultural diplomacy – Danish diplomacy and the Baltic question – Normalization regime in Czechoslovakia – Baltic diasporas – Use of force and the coup d’état in the USSR in 1991 – Security narratives in the 1990s

Kaarel Piirimäe is an Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu and a Senior Research Fellow at the Estonian War Museum.Olaf Mertelsmann is an Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu.

• Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War – Politics of history in Russia – Gorbachev, Perestroika and Glasnost – Atheism, and informal social networks – Soviet cultural diplomacy – Danish diplomacy and the Baltic question – Normalization regime in Czechoslovakia – Baltic diasporas – Use of force and the coup d’état in the USSR in 1991 – Security narratives in the 1990s

Kaarel Piirimäe is an Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu and a Senior Research Fellow at the Estonian War Museum.Olaf Mertelsmann is an Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu.

• Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War – Politics of history in Russia – Gorbachev, Perestroika and Glasnost – Atheism, and informal social networks – Soviet cultural diplomacy – Danish diplomacy and the Baltic question – Normalization regime in Czechoslovakia – Baltic diasporas – Use of force and the coup d’état in the USSR in 1991 – Security narratives in the 1990s