Forecasting Sovereignty: The Role of Expert Languages during the Perestroika in Soviet Estonia

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Sommer, Vítězslav
Forecasting Sovereignty: The Role of Expert Languages during the Perestroika in Soviet Estonia.
[Praha, 30.11.2023-30.11.2023, (W-EUR 30/10)]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378114
Klíčová slova: perestroika * Eastern Bloc * political history * history of expertise
Obor OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The seminar aimed to historicise the long transformation of 1989 by focusing on the role of expert languages in the state-socialist regimes. The main speaker at the seminar was Dr Juhan Saharov (Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu), who presented his research on the role of forecasting experts and forecasting knowledge in the political events of Estonian perestroika.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0348099