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By 1819, the Baltic provinces were the first in the Russian Empire in which serfdom was abolished, the largely autonomous nobility allowing the peasants to own their own land or move to the cities. During World War I, between the retreating Russian and advancing German troops on 24 February 1918 the Salvation Committee of the Estonian National Council Maapäev issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence. Russian Civil War, was the Republic of Estonia’s struggle for sovereignty in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917. The war ended in 1920 with Estonia’s victory over Russia. The Treaty of Tartu was a peace treaty between Estonia and Russian SFSR signed on 2 February 1920 ending the Estonian War of Independence. Estonia’s sovereignty and renounced any and all territorial claims on Estonia.

Moscow and not to their domestic constituencies. During the struggle Soviet foreign policy drifted. On 1 December 1924, Comintern conducted an attempted communist coup in Estonia. The fate of the relations between USSR and Republic of Estonia before World War II was decided by the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and its Secret Additional Protocol of August 1939.