Marju Lauristin is the daughter and granddaughter of hard-core unrepentant communists.
She herself was a CP member, until the winds changed. Now, she call herself democratic socialist -- that's a socialist who lives in a democracy.
There's nothing democratic about Marju.
It's a pity that the respectable Paul Goble can't read Marju's book, Punane ja sinine. Then he could see that she's a dunce and a liar.

Marju Lauristin is well-known, but; hardly distinguished, which implies 'accomplished' and 'respect-worthy'.
Her sociological writing is trivial and unimaginative. She sidesteps important questions like, "How can someone torture an 11-year old girl?" http://vimeo.com/34852993
She's also a liar! Telling us that her parents were idealists and communists only in the Western sense (whatever that might mean).
Her father, Johannes Lauristin, was the head of the delegation of Estonian communists who travelled to Moscow to grovel before Stalin and beg him to take Estonia into the Soviet Union. Her mother, Olga, was Soviet Estonia's first chief censor and her first deed was to ban Estonian literature!
Marju has a big mouth, but no brains to speak of. The name 'Lauristin' opened doors for her in life. She married twice, but; hung onto that useful name.
By contrast, Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, dumped her father's name, before she married.

Has Lauristin, the self-proclaimed Lutheran, ever set foot in a church?