We present to the attention of readers a book about the dramatic fate of the Baltic states and its indigenous peoples (mainly Estonians) in the conditions of military-political, civilizational, informational and psychological rivalry between the Germans (Germans, Danes, Swedes) and the Slavs (Poles, Russians), the Western world (Roman Catholic, Protestant) and the Eastern (Orthodox) world, carriers of Westernized ideology (socialism, ethno-nationalism, parliamentarism) and adherents of traditionalist ideology (autocratic power, conservatism, United and Indivisible Russia). The analysis covers more than eight centuries (XII - early XX centuries) and traces the processes that led to the separation of the Baltic states from Russia in 1920.

CONTENTS: To the reader (9). Chapter I. how the Germans and Danes conquered Baltic states (16).Chapter II. Livonia under the control of German colonists (46).Chapter III. The struggle of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich (the Terrible) for access to the Baltic Sea: Livonian War (94). Chapter IV. Under the rule of the Swedes (144). Chapter V. Estland and Livonia as part of the Russian Empire: Between the German baron and the Russian Tsar (155). Chapter VI. The confrontation between the Orthodox and German-Lutheran worlds in the Baltic region: the Russian sovereign between the indigenous population and his master - the German baron (219). Chapter VII. On the eve of great upheavals (345). Chapter VIII. Estonia: On sharp turns towards state independence (1917-1920) (431). Afterword (520). Sources and literature (529).