The leaps and bounds of e-Estonia.

Disassembling bronze monuments and concrete tokens of a half-decade of occupation and expelling Soviet troops from Tartu's strategic bomber airfield and the Paldiski nuclear reactor base in the early 1990s was a play against time. It was, then and there, also a race against two major powers - inherently opposed, yet perpetually intertwined in the strategic superpower culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]