Download or read book Soviet Karelia written by Nick Baron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Russian Karelia in Search of a New Role written by Heikki Eskelinen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Karelia written by Lawrence Hokkanen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Soviet Karelia written by Nick Baron and published by BASEES/Routledge Series on Rus. This book was released on 2007 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Karelia written by Lawrence and Sylvia Hokkanen and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Rise and Fall of Soviet Karelia written by Antti Laine and published by Kikimora Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russian Karelia written by Markku Tykkyläinen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Regional Newspaper in Post Soviet Russia written by Jukka Pietiläinen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiivistelmä. - Resumo en Esperanto. - Rezjume.
Download or read book The Saga of the Karelo Finnish Republic written by I. Sergeyev and published by New York : Workers Library Publishers. This book was released on 1941 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Finno Ugric Republics and the Russian State written by Rein Taagepera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. This text provides a survey of the peoples who speak Finno-Ugric languages and have titular republics or autonomous regions within the post-Soviet Russian federation. Their languages have set them apart from their Turkic and Russian neighbours and helped to preserve their distinct identity, including their animist religious practices. Previous works on this subject were written before the demise of the USSR so that information on the subject was screened by Soviet censors. In particular, this book explores the principal threats now facing these peoples - as much environmental as political. Although communism has gone, the exploitation of natural resources threatens the region's ecology, while the new rulers in the Kremlin seem set to continue their predecessors' oppressive policies towards the Finno-Ugrians. The book is written with commitment to the threatened human and political rights of these endangered peoples.
Download or read book The Search for a Socialist El Dorado written by Alexey Golubev and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Karelia Republic written by Russian Information and Business Center, Inc. Staff and published by . This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of the Republic of Karelia in Russia s Foreign and Security Policy written by Oleg B. Alexandrov and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Youth in a Changing Karelia written by Vesa Puuronen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: The book is aimed at uncovering certain features of the future of Karelia, which is partly situated in Russia and Finland. The authors believe that this can be done by studying in depth the opinions, values, norms, beliefs, fears and hopes of young people living in two neighbouring but profoundly different societies: Russia and Finland. Young people are constructing these societies in the 20th century. The book is based on a comparative research project, financed by the Academy of Finland, which was carried out during 1995-1997 by an international, inter-disciplinary research group. The novelty of the book is based on the use of different research methods and theoretical starting points. One of the crucial questions raised by the book concerns the applicability of Western theories in research into Russian society and people. The analysis shows that many of the concepts applied frequently in Western social sciences do not apply in research relating to Russian specific culture. The book proposes that more attention should be paid to the challenges of comparative research.
Download or read book The Emergence of Foreign Economic Activity in Russian Karelia written by Heikki Eskelinen and published by Joensuun Yliopisto Karjalan Tutkimuslaitos. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Karelian Exodus written by Ronald N. Harpelle and published by . This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Republic of Karelia in figures written by and published by Государственный Комитет Рес. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
