Building That Bright Future : : Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans / / Samira Saramo.
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 so...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Map of Karelia
- Introduction
- The Life Writers
- Chapter One. The Call of Karjala: Contextualizing the Karelian “Fever”
- Chapter Two. “Our Comrades Are Leaving Again”: Moving to Soviet Karelia
- Chapter Three. “Of Course Not Like There”: Karelian Living Conditions as Experienced by Finnish North Americans
- Chapter Four. “The Golden Fund of Karelia”: Childhood in Finnish North American Karelia
- Chapter Five. “Isn’t It a Different Land, This Sickle and Hammer Land?”: Working in Soviet Karelia
- Chapter Six. “All Kinds of Hustle and Bustle”: Community Life and Leisure
- Chapter Seven. “Karelia Is Soaked in the Blood of Innocent People”: Writing about the Great Terror
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index