This article explores the multigenerational impact of Sovietization policies on the reproduction of educational inequalities in Estonia. Estonia provides an opportunity to assess the multigenerational effect under conditions of regime changes after transitioning from the independent Estonian Republic to Soviet Estonia and thence to the newly independent post-Soviet Estonia. During Sovietization, a wide range of measures involving repressions and positive discrimination were applied to abruptly hinder intergenerational continuity. Analysis based on retrospective data from the Estonian Family and Fertility Survey 2004 indicates grandparents’ social positions are associated with grandchildren’s attainment of higher education. Their influence is only partially mediated through the parental generation. Overall, the Sovietization policies have not reduced either the two or three-generational reproduction of inequality. Moreover, these policies produced unintended consequences, facilitating the transmission of advantage in three generational perspectives. Our findings argue in favour of the importance of contextual sensitivity and a multigenerational perspective in research of social stratification.

本文探讨了苏维埃化政策对爱沙尼亚教育不平等再生产的多代影响。爱沙尼亚提供了一个机会，可以评估在从独立的爱沙尼亚共和国过渡到苏维埃爱沙尼亚，然后过渡到新独立的后苏联爱沙尼亚之后，政权更迭条件下的多代影响。苏维埃化期间，采取了一系列包括镇压和积极歧视在内的措施，突然阻碍了代际连续性。基于 2004 年爱沙尼亚家庭和生育率调查的回顾性数据的分析表明，祖父母的社会地位与孙子女接受高等教育有关。他们的影响只是部分地通过父母一代来调节。全面的，苏维埃化政策并没有减少不平等的两代或三代再生产。此外，这些政策产生了意想不到的后果，促进了三个代际视角的优势传递。我们的研究结果支持情境敏感性和多代视角在社会分层研究中的重要性。