The search for a socialist El Dorado : Finnish immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada to 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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Author / Creator: Golubev, Alexey.
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
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505 0 |a 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. 
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