Building That Bright Future: Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans

by Samira Saramo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487523491
• ISBN13: 9781487523497
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher