The National Awakening Period
1889 marked the beginning of the central government-sponsored policy of Russification. The impact of this was that many of the Baltic German legal institutions were either abolished or had to do their work in Russian - a good example of this is the University of Tartu. As the Russian Revolution of 1905 swept through Estonia, the Estonians called for freedom of the press and assembly, for universal franchise, and for national autonomy.
- 1904–1905, the Russo-Japanese War (thousands of Estonians among the Russian Imperial armed forces)
- 1914–1918, World War I (thousands of Estonians among the Russian Imperial armed forces)
Read more about this topic: List Of Estonian Wars
Famous quotes containing the words national, awakening and/or period:
“If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is proper and what is improper that they don’t know there’s anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.”
—Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900–1980)
“The awakening is
to transformation,
word after word.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“There is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)