Everyday Life in Stalinist Estonia

Olaf Mertelsmann is Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Tartu (Estonia). He holds a doctorate from the University of Hamburg and has taught in Hamburg, Novosibirsk and Tartu.

• Contents: History of everyday life during Stalinism – Sovietization of Estonia – Resistance and accommodation – Leisure in Stalin’s Estonia – Standard of living – Life on a Stalinist kolkhoz – The private sphere under Stalinism – Moonshining.