The Birth of Cultural Autonomy in Estonia: How, Why, and for Whom?

Kari Alenius

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2007, vol. 38, issue 4, 445-462

Abstract: The 1925 law on cultural autonomy of minorities guaranteed Estonia's most significant minorities the right to independently decide how they wanted to arrange their own national-cultural matters. In this article I will focus on why Estonia decided to pass a law that was exceptional in the atmosphere of that time. To find an answer, it is necessary also to analyze how (through what process) the law was shaped and for whom the law was ultimately intended. In summary, it can be said that there were about ten factors, which were different, yet interconnected and similar in their impact, and only together did they provide sufficient impetus to make it possible to approve autonomy.

Date: 2007
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