North American Finns In Soviet Karelia In The 1930s
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North American Finns In Soviet Karelia In The 1930s
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Author : Irina Takala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
North American Finns In Soviet Karelia In The 1930s written by Irina Takala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Finnish Americans categories.
The Search For A Socialist El Dorado
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Author : Alexey Golubev
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2014-04-01
The Search For A Socialist El Dorado written by Alexey Golubev and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with History categories.
In the 1930s, thousands of Finns emigrated from their communities in the United States and Canada to Soviet Karelia, a region in the Soviet Union where Finnish Communist émigrés were building a society to implement their ideals of socialist Finland. To their new socialist home, these immigrants brought critically needed skills, tools, machines, and money. Educated and skilled, American and Canadian Finns were regarded by Soviet authorities as agents of revolutionary transformations who would not only modernize the economy of Soviet Karelia, but also enlighten its society. North American immigrants, indeed, became active participants of socialist colonization of what Bolshevik leaders perceived as dark, uneducated and backward Soviet ethnic periphery. The Search for a Socialist El Dorado is the first comprehensive account in English of this fascinating story. Using a vast body of documentary sources from archives in Petrozavodsk and Moscow, Russian- and Finnish-language press and literature from the 1930s, oral history interviews and secondary literature, Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala explore in depth the “Karelian fever” among Finnish Americans and Canadians, and the lives of immigrants in the Soviet Union, their contribution to Soviet economy and culture, and their fates in the Great Terror.
Life Moving Forward
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Author : Samira Susanna Saramo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Life Moving Forward written by Samira Susanna Saramo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Karelian Exodus
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Author : Ronald N. Harpelle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-07-01
Karelian Exodus written by Ronald N. Harpelle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-01 with Canada categories.
"Karelian Exodus, a collection of articles on the exodus to Karelia of Finnish Canadians and Finnish Americans in the 1930s, the reasons behind it, and the experiences in Karelia of those who left. The 13 Karelia Exodus articles were originally papers presented in March 2004 at a conference in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The conference dealt with Finnish communities in North America and Soviet Karelia during the Depression and featured speakers from Russia, Finland, Sweden, the United States, and Canada."--Pub. website.
At The Intersections Of Nations Diasporas And Modernities
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Author : Evgeny Efremkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
At The Intersections Of Nations Diasporas And Modernities written by Evgeny Efremkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Building That Bright Future
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Author : Samira Saramo
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2022-05-30
Building That Bright Future written by Samira Saramo and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-30 with History categories.
In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers’ society. They were recruited by the Soviet leadership for their North American mechanical and lumber expertise, their familiarity with the socialist cause, and their Finnish language and ethnicity. By 1936, however, Finnish culture and language came under attack and ethnic Finns became the region’s primary targets in the Stalinist Great Terror. Building That Bright Future relies on the personal letters and memoirs of these Finnish migrants to build a history of everyday life during a transitional period for both North American socialism and Soviet policy. Highlighting the voices of men, women, and children, the book follows the migrants from North America to the Soviet Union, providing vivid descriptions of daily life. Samira Saramo brings readers into personal contact with Finnish North Americans and their complex and intimate negotiations of self and belonging. Through letters and memoirs, Building That Bright Future explores the multiple strategies these migrants used to make sense of their rapidly shifting positions in the Soviet hierarchy and the relationships that rooted them to multiple places and times.
Lines From Karelia
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Author : Nancy Mattson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Lines From Karelia written by Nancy Mattson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Finns categories.
Thousands of North American Finns, gripped by Karelian Fever, moved to the Soviet Union in the 1930s to help build a socialist utopia. Nancy Mattson's search for meaning and motive in that doomed project began with a personal search for her great-aunt Lisi, lost in Karelia in 1939, and went on to generate poems based on history and family letters
Karelia Fever A Review Of The Contagious Dream Of The 1930s
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Author : Russell Mattson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06
Karelia Fever A Review Of The Contagious Dream Of The 1930s written by Russell Mattson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with categories.
A look at the motivation and dynamics of the immigration to a distant socialist utopia in the Autonomous Karelian Soviet Socialist Republic. The culture, life experiences of participants, their recruitment, travel to and working in Karelia, subsequent return immigration and life experiences upon return. And in many unfortunate circumstances their ill-fated entanglement in the Great Terror.
Finns In The United States
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Author : Auvo Kostiainen
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2014-03-01
Finns In The United States written by Auvo Kostiainen and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with Social Science categories.
Late-arriving immigrants during the Great Migration, Finns were, comparatively speaking, a relatively small immigrant group, with about 350,000 immigrants arriving prior to World War II. Nevertheless, because of their geographic concentration in the Upper Midwest in particular, their impact was pronounced. They differed from many other new immigrant groups in a number of ways, including the fact that theirs is not an Indo-European language, and many old-country cultural and social features reflect their geographic location in Europe, at the juncture of East and West. A fresh and up-to-date analysis of Finnish Americans, this insightful volume lays the groundwork for exploring this unique culture through a historical context, followed by an overview of the overall composition and settlement patterns of these newcomers. The authors investigate the vivid ethnic organizations Finns created, as well as the cultural life they sought to preserve and enhance while fitting into their new homeland. Also explored are the complex dimensions of Finnish-American political and religious life, as well as the exodus of many radical leftists to Soviet Karelia in the 1930s. Through the lens of multiculturalism, transnationalism, and whiteness studies, the authors of this volume present a rich portrait of this distinctive group.
Karelia
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Author : Lawrence and Sylvia Hokkanen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-11-16
Karelia written by Lawrence and Sylvia Hokkanen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-16 with categories.
Karelia, a U.S.S.R. republic bordering Finland, was hailed as the "workers' paradise" in the 1930s. In 1934, Lauri and Sylvi Hokkanen, along with thousands of other Finns from the United States and Canada, were recruited by the Russians to come to Karelia, bringing with them American technology and thought. But the Stalin purges of 1937 and 1938 cost many of these immigrants their lives. Lauri and Sylvi escaped, returned to the United States and, quietly, resumed their lives, keeping their experiences hidden out of fear. This is a memoir shares their story - an unusual and important story.