ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book considers changes in Baltic societies in the late 1940s and 1950s in order to pose the question of whether a nation-state can be colonized. It describes the analysis of disputes over the possible place of existentialism in Soviet society in the late 1960s. The book focuses on the Soviet home in the late Soviet period. It turns to the late 1980s and the end of Soviet rule in the Western borderlands —and, indeed, the end of the Soviet Union itself. The book shows that the late Soviet period included important areas that were excluded from the sphere of social and political relevance, and yet nevertheless generated dissensual energies. The 'Baltic change' of the late 1980s demonstrates this very powerfully, as very different levels of society were involved in its political actions.
