1988 Event

Singing Revolution

Name: Singing Revolution
Start: 1988

Three hundred thousand Estonians sing banned anthems together: dissent becomes massive.

What leads to what

Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.

Downstream

leads to Independence of Estonia restored 1991 Quatre ans de rassemblements chantés avant l’indépendance restaurée.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1988 — the context national timelines leave out.

1 year later December revolution Romania
1 year later Fall of the Berlin Wall
1 year later Pan-European Picnic Hungary
1 year later Baltic Way Lithuania
1 year later Velvet Revolution Czechia
2 years later German reunification Germany
2 years later Independence restored Lithuania
3 years earlier Schengen Agreement

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

European integration 1950 – 2030 From coal and steel to a Union of twenty-seven.
Cold War 1947 – 1991 A continent cut in two, from Yalta to 1991.

Countries involved

Estonia

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What was written of it

Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.

Déclaration du 9 mai 1950 1950

Schuman Declaration, Salon de l’Horloge, Paris