‘Romantic and Progressive: Stalinist Impressionism in Painting of the Baltic States in the 1940s–1950s,’ installation view (photo courtesy of Kumu Art Museum of Estonia) TALLINN, Estonia — The history ...

Karl Marx is often quoted as saying that history repeats itself; the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Sometimes events are not all that clear, however. Consider Estonia. Last week, three ...

Up the Estonian coast, a five-lane highway bends with the path of the sea, then breaks inland, leaving cars to follow a thin road toward the houses at the water’s edge. There is a gated community here ...