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Lahemaa: The Paradox of the USSR's First National Park*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert W. Smurr
Robert W. Smurr*
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The Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505–0002, USA. Email: smurrr@evergreen.edu
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[A] place belongs forever to whoever claims it the hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Joan Didion, The White Album

The residents of Lahemaa have evolved into Lahemaa folk, who look upon the park with the eyes of a caretaker, who preserve and protect it … [they] have developed a keen interest in looking after their home and environment.

Ilmar Epner, “15 aastat Lahemaa Rahvusparkii”

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 399 - 423
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