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Students in the psychology lab of the University of Tartu |
In contrast to the previous and subsequent colonial periods, the two decades of independence offered enormous possibilities to the Estonian public and cultural life.
Virtually within one generation a cultural space based on Estonian language and mentality was created — higher education and police force, literature and legal system, scientific and sporting administrations and many more essential facets of a modern nation state; the basis for the national self-consciousness that has survived, despite everything, to this day. |