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The search for a socialist El Dorado : Finnish immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s /

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 m̌igrš were building a society to implement their ideals of socialist Finland. To their new socialist home, these immigrants brou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Golubev, Alexey (Autor), Takala, Irina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 m̌igrš 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781609174057
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