Word: tartu
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Taranovsky, who was born in what is now Tartu, Estonia, grew up in Tartu, St. Petersburg and Kharkov. His father, a professor of Slavic law, emigrated with his family to Yugoslavia soon after the Bolshevik revolution...
Intellectually, Lauristin had long ago left doctrinaire communist ideas behind. In the late 1960s she attended the university at Tartu, where Western thinkers were widely studied. At the same time she set out to shed the unhappy legacy of her father, who in 1939 signed away Estonia's freedom to the Soviet Union. A statue of him honoring that deed still stands beside the newly constituted independent parliament in Tallinn. Now Lauristin is asking parliament to remove...