Soviet Karelia
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Soviet Karelia
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Author : Nick Baron
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Soviet Karelia written by Nick Baron and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with History categories.
In 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland, into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could be achieved by socialist nationalities policy and economic planning, and to encourage other countries to follow this example. However, Stalin’s accession to power brought a change of policy towards the periphery - the encouragement of local autonomy which had been a key part of Karelia’s model development was reversed, the state border was sealed to the outside world, and large parts of the republic's territory were given over to Gulag labour camps controlled by the NKVD, the precursor of the KGB. This book traces the evolution of Soviet Karelia in the early Soviet period, discussing amongst other things how political relations between Moscow and the regional leadership changed over time; the nature of its spatial, economic and demographic development; and the origins of the massive repressions launched in 1937 against the local population.
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.
Soviet Karelia
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Author : Nick Baron
language : en
Publisher: BASEES/Routledge Series on Rus
Release Date : 2007
Soviet Karelia written by Nick Baron and has been published by BASEES/Routledge Series on Rus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Using recently declassified party, state, and security police documents, this book traces the evolution of Soviet Karelia in the interwar period, discussing amongst other things how political relations between Moscow and the regional leadership changed over time; the nature of its spatial, economic and demographic development; and the origins of the massive repressions launched in 1937 against the local population."--BOOK JACKET.
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.
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.
Karelia
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Author : Lawrence Hokkanen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Karelia written by Lawrence Hokkanen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
In 1934 Russia invited many Finnish-American couples to accept jobs in Karelia, Russia. In 1941, the Stalin purges resulted in the arrest and death of many from that community. Lauri and Sylvi escaped only to discover distrust at home.
Moving In The Ussr
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Author : Pekka Hakamies
language : en
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Release Date : 2005-06-30
Moving In The Ussr written by Pekka Hakamies and has been published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-30 with History categories.
This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particular the territory of Karelia that was ceded by Finland in the WWII, Podolia in the Ukraine, and the North-West periphery of Russia in the Kola peninsula. Finns from Karelia emigrated to Finland, most of the Jews of Podolia were exterminated by Nazi Germany but the survivors later emigrated to Israel, and the sparsely populated territory beyond the Polar circle received the Societ conquerors of nature which they began to exploit. The empty areas were usually settled by planned state recruitment of relocated Soviet citizens, but in some cases also by spontaneous movement. Thus, a Ukrainian took over a Jewish house, a Chuvash kolkhos was dispersed along Finnish khutor houses, and youth in the town of Apatity began to prefer their home town in relation to the cities of Russia. Everywhere the settlers met new and strange surroundings, and they had to construct places and meanings for themselves in their new home and restructure their local identity in relation to their places of origin and current abodes. They also had to create images of the former inhabitants and explanations for various strange details they preceived around themselves. All articles within this volume are based on extensive field or archive work. This research project was funded by the Academy of Finland.
Remembering Karelia
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Author : Karen Armstrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Remembering Karelia written by Karen Armstrong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Karelia (Russia) categories.
In June 1944, after two wars with the Soviet Union, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Finnish population of Karelia, nearly 11% of the Finnish population, was moved across the new border. The war years, the loss of territory, the resettlement of the Karelian population, and the reparations that had to be paid to the Allied Forces, were experiences shared by most people living in Finland between 1939 and the late 1950s. Using a family's memoirs, the author shows how these traumatic events affected people in all spheres of their lives and also how they coped physically and emotionally.
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.
Rise And Fall Of Soviet Karelia
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Rise And Fall Of Soviet Karelia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.