State and revolution in Finland / / by Risto Alapuro.

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series, Volume 174
• VerfasserIn: Alapuro, Risto, 1944-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018; 2019
• Edition: Second edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 174.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv,306 pages).
• Notes: Originally published in Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1988.; "This second edition includes a new postscript."--Back cover.

By analysing the experience of Finland, Risto Alapuro shows how upheavals in powerful countries shape the internal politics of smaller countries. This linkage, a highly topical subject in the twenty-first century world, is concretely studied by putting the abortive Finnish revolution of 1917-18 into...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• The Formation of a Small Polity
• State-Making and the Class Structure
• Dominant Groups and State-Making
• The Agrarian Class Structure and Industrial Workers
• Territorial Integration
• National Integration and Class Integration
• Finnish Nationalism
• Before the Revolution: Organisation, Mobilisation, and the Role of Russia
• Regional Consolidation of Party Support
• The Abortive Revolution
• On Preconditions for Revolutionary Situations
• The Abortive Revolution of 1917–1918
• State and Nation after the Failed Revolution
• The Finnish State and Revolution in a European Perspective
• Eastern European Revolutionary Movements
• The Formation of Finland in Europe
• Postscript to the Second Printing
• Back Matter
• Bibliography
• Index.