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- ↑ Mart Kuldkepp, "Estonia Gravitates Towards Sweden: Nordic Identity and Activist Regionalism in World War I", PhD thesis, Tartu University, http://hdl.handle.net/10062/43754.
- ↑ Virge Tamme, 'Tartu ülikooli teadur pälvis maineka autasu', 17.06.2015, accessed 1 September 2015, http://www.ut.ee/et/uudised/tartu-ulikooli-teadur-palvis-maineka-autasu.
