Main stages of the activities of the intermovements in Estonia during the years of the perestroika
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-4-20-25
EDN: MLPCNI
Abstract
The article is devoted to the main milestones of the Intermovement's socio-political activity in Estonia in 1988–1991. The purpose of the work is to identify the main stages of the activities of the International Workers' Movement and the United Council of Labor Collectives of the Estonian SSR. The objectives are to identify the prerequisites for the emergence, as well as to trace the main activities and program guidelines of the International Workers' Movement and the United Council of Labor Collectives of the Estonian SSR. The author concludes that these organizations arose as a reaction of the national minorities of Estonia to the formation and activities of the Popular Front of the Republic and to extreme nationalist groups, movements and organizations that gained political weight, such as the Estonian National Independence Party and the Citizens' Congress. As a result, the activity of the Inter-Movements did not contribute to stopping the development of nationalism. Moreover, it acted as a determinant for the consolidation of nationalists.
About the Author
A. K. Potapov
Dostoevsky Omsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
POTAPOV Alexander Konstantinovich, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Russian History and Historiography Department
Omsk, Mira Ave., 55А, 644077
AuthorID: 734548
AuthorID (SCOPUS): 58513416200
ResearcherID: GLR-3420-2022
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Potapov A.K. Main stages of the activities of the intermovements in Estonia during the years of the perestroika. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2025;10(4):20-25. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-4-20-25. EDN: MLPCNI
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