http://kudevita.webs.com/mrp-pakt.jpg Lost of independence Click to edit Master text styles · 1940-1941 - Soviet occupation. Second level · 1941-1944 - World War II Third level German occupation. Fourth level · 1945-1991 Soviet occupations. Fifth level · Mass deportations (1941, 1949). · Collectivisation. http://isurvived.org/Pictures_iSurvived-5/1942-deportations.GIF Gaining back Click to edit Master text styles independence Second level Third level · 1987 First public Fourth level demonstrations in Hirvepark. · 1988 Singing Revolution.
Estonian State Theatre Institute founded in 1946, led by Ants Lauter and Priit Põldroos, and from the Moscow State Institute of Dramatic Art, injected new blood into the theatre. The repertoire was widening (stage versions of the novels by Tammsaare and Vilde), attention was paid to the inner problems of a human being as well as mutual relations. August Jakobson became a prominent and prolific dramatist; his plays included topics on the class struggle in pre-war Estonia, the period of collectivisation and the problems of Soviet intellectuals. In his dramas the “negative” characters appear more vigorous than the “positive” ones: Elu tsitadellis (Life in the Citadel, 1946), this work seems to be an alloy of an Ibsen family drama and communist ideology. The first Soviet Estonian films were produced in Leningrad since the Tallinn film industry had been destroyed. Elu tsitadellis (Life in the Citadel, 1947), and Valgus
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