ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part focuses on the period before privatization of the public sector started. Estonia assumed the old name Republic of Estonia, and the Supreme Soviet got its new name Supreme Council. Thereby Estonia outlined the contour of an independent state, even though the reality was still that Estonia was a republic in the Soviet Union. In the concept of the IME-programme the concern was for Estonia to obtain power of delegation of the control over the means of production, that is, transform union property into republic property. The political reality in Estonia removed, however, the basis for IME, because the radical nationalists succeeded in pressing the Popular Front and some of the communists in the direction of an open demand for political independence. The majority of Russians were in practice affected by the provisions because of lack of knowledge of the Estonian language.
