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The History of the Oil Industry in Independent Estonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David M. Crowe Jr.
David M. Crowe Jr.*
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Elon College
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Estonia emerged from World War I economically devastated, with no significant industrial base to build its economy. Yet, within twenty years, it had come to play an important economic role among the Baltic states and seemed destined to assume an equally important position throughout northeastern Europe because of its wise development of its vast oil shale deposits.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , Spring 1978 , pp. 9 - 17
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Copyright © 1978 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities (USSR and East Europe) Inc. 

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