(Re)Construction of Collective Identities after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Case of EstoniaFootnote*

0. *Research for this article was funded by the Estonian Science Foundation (ETF), project grant no. 5845. The authors would like to thank Professor David D. Laitin (Stanford University) for his useful comments on earlier versions of this article.

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