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Karelian Exodus
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Karelian Exodus - Finnish Communities in North America and Soviet Karelia during the Depression Era is a collection of 13 articles on this timely topic by scholars from Finland, Russia, Sweden Canada and the USA.
The articles are based on papers delivered at a conference held at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario in late March, 2004. The conference theme was "Finnish Communities in North America and the Soviet Union during the Depresssion Years 1929-1939."
The mass exodus of some 6500-7000 Finnish Canadians and Finnish Americans to Soviet Karelia in the early 1930s is explored from a variety of perspectices and attempts to explain the causes of this so-called "Karelia Fever" are offered.
Karelian Exodus illuminates this little know episode in Canadian and US history, shows the impact and consequences of Stalin's purges of Finns in Soviet Karelia 1935-1938 and includes important new research results.
By Ron Harpelle, Varpu Lindström, Alexis Pogorelskin, paperback, 235 pages, in English
The articles are based on papers delivered at a conference held at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario in late March, 2004. The conference theme was "Finnish Communities in North America and the Soviet Union during the Depresssion Years 1929-1939."
The mass exodus of some 6500-7000 Finnish Canadians and Finnish Americans to Soviet Karelia in the early 1930s is explored from a variety of perspectices and attempts to explain the causes of this so-called "Karelia Fever" are offered.
Karelian Exodus illuminates this little know episode in Canadian and US history, shows the impact and consequences of Stalin's purges of Finns in Soviet Karelia 1935-1938 and includes important new research results.
By Ron Harpelle, Varpu Lindström, Alexis Pogorelskin, paperback, 235 pages, in English
