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Toivo Raun

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raunt@iu.edu
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Global and International Studies Building, 3020

Adjunct Affiliations

Adjunct Professor, History
Director, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1969

Research Interests

Modern Baltic and Finnish history

Courses Recently Taught

  • The Baltic States since 1918
  • Empire and Ethnicity in Modern Russian History
  • Ethnic Relations in the Post-Soviet West
  • Modern Scandinavia and the Baltic States
  • Estonian Culture and Civilization
  • Finland in the 20th Century
  • Uralic Peoples and Cultures
  • Nordic and Baltic States in the European Union

Publication Highlights

Co-editor with Kristi Kukk, Soviet Deportations in Estonia: Impact and Legacy (Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2007).

"National Identity in Finland and Estonia, 1905-1917," Norbert Angermann, et al., eds., Ostseeprovinzen, Baltische Staaten und das Nationale (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2005), pp. 343-56.

“Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Estonian Nationalism Revisited” in Nations and Nationalism, 9 (2003), pp. 129-47.

Estonia and the Estonians, 2nd updated ed. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institute Press, 2001; also in Finnish (1989) and Hungarian translation (2001).

“Estonia in the 1990s,” Journal of Baltic Studies, 32:1 (2001), pp. 19-43

“The Baltic States After the Collapse of the Soviet Union,” Hungarian Studies, 14:2 (2000), pp. 275-284 and 15:1 (2001). pp. 163-65.

“Democratization and Political Development in Estonia, 1987-1996” in Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, eds., The Consolidation of Democracy in East Central Europe. Cambridge, 1997, pp. 334-74

“Ethnic Relations and Conflict in the Baltic States” in W. Raymond Duncan and G. Paul Holman, eds.,Ethnic Nationalism and Regional Conflict: The Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Boulder, Colo., 1994, pp. 155-82

“Finland and Estonia: Cultural and Political Relations, 1917-1940” in Journal of Baltic Studies, 18 (1987), pp. 5-20.

Co-author with Edward C. Thaden, et al., Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland, 1855-1914. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1981.

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