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Transition to Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Priit Järve
Priit Järve*
Affiliation:
Institute of International and Social Studies, Estonian Academy Sciences
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Extract

History shows that in the development of a society, as in any other development, there are critical periods when deep and sudden changes take place, and crucial decisions need to be made. What makes these periods critical is that certain conditions must exist or be created at the right time. Otherwise chances for change may be lost and the results will be fundamentally different from what they could have been.

Type
Part I: Estonia's Path to Identity and Independence
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 19 - 27
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR 

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Notes

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