At Eurozine they publish Sofi Oksanen 'On the Finlandization of Europe', A lion in a cage, based on a speech she recently delivered at a conference in Latvia.
Oksanen's Purge and the just-published-in-English When the Doves Disappeared -- see the Konpf publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- both deal with Estonia and the Soviet Union, and this is an interesting piece considering 'Finlandization' -- "the influence that a stronger power exercises on the policies of weaker states" -- and language. In the cases of both Finland and Estonia that (overwhelmingly stronger) power was (and is, in only slightly different form) the Soviet Union and now Russia -- though as she notes, the different Finnish and Estonian experiences have led to very different understandings of language dealing with these issues.
Oksanen's Purge and the just-published-in-English When the Doves Disappeared -- see the Konpf publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- both deal with Estonia and the Soviet Union, and this is an interesting piece considering 'Finlandization' -- "the influence that a stronger power exercises on the policies of weaker states" -- and language. In the cases of both Finland and Estonia that (overwhelmingly stronger) power was (and is, in only slightly different form) the Soviet Union and now Russia -- though as she notes, the different Finnish and Estonian experiences have led to very different understandings of language dealing with these issues.