1960s

From the 1960ies to the 1980ies the second stage of culture house development preceded parallel to the comprehensive formation of socialism (Flierl 1996: 157ff).

The so-called 'elite' schools that were established in the 1960ies and provided in-depth language learning became one of the few possibilities for cultural or other elite to secure cultural capital for their children at the time when access to economic capital and consumption was limited.

A few experimental plantations with poplars and their hybrids have been established on levelled oil shale opencasts in Estonia in the 1960ies [6, 36].