The search for a socialist El Dorado : Finnish immigration from the United States and Canada to Soviet Karelia in the 1930s /
In the 1930's, 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 émigrés were building a society to implement their ideals of socialist Finland. To their new socialist home, these immigra...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Takala, Irina. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2013. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Finnish immigrants in North America and Russia
- Two perspectives on Soviet immigration policy : Moscow and Petrozavodsk
- To Karelia!
- The failure of the immigration program
- American and Canadian immigrants in Soviet economy
- North American Finns in Soviet culture
- Challenges of cross-cultural communication
- American and Canadian Finns in the great terror
- Wartime and after.