Finland in the Twentieth Century
Author: D. G. Kirby
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1980-01-18
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0816658021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Finland's search for a national identity.
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A Short History of Finland
Author: Fred Singleton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-10
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521647014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinland has often been ignored or misunderstood by the English-speaking world and this work presents the reader with a readable and authoritative introduction to the life of the Finns and the position of their country in the modern world. The book explains how a small nation, placed in an unfavorable geopolitical situation, won its independence and eventually achieved a high material standard of living together with an enviable degree of social and political stability by adapting itself to the realities of life in an unpromising environment. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
A Concise History of Finland
Author: David Kirby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-07-13
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 052183225X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn up-to-date political, social and economic history of Finland from medieval times to the present. David Kirby traces the evolution of Finland's distinctive identity and of the Finnish national state from the long centuries under Swedish rule, through self-government within the Russian Empire, to independence in the twentieth century.
A History of Finnish Literature
Author: Jaakko Ahokas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780877501725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era.
State and Revolution in Finland
Author: Risto Alapuro
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9004386173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy analysing the experience of Finland, Risto Alapuro shows how upheavals in powerful countries shape the internal politics of smaller countries. This linkage, a highly topical subject in the twenty-first century world, is concretely studied by putting the abortive Finnish revolution of 1917-18 into a long historical and a broad comparative perspective.
Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000
Author: Ville Kivimäki
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-06-07
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 3030698823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book uses Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and renewal of a nation through histories of experience and emotions. It revolves around the following questions: What kinds of experiences have engendered national mobilization and feelings of national belonging? How have political and societal conflicts turned into new communities of experience and emotion? What kinds of experiences have been integrated into, or excluded from, the national context in different instances? How have people internalized or contested the nation as a context for their personal, family and minority-group experiences? In what ways has the nation entered and affected people’s intimate spheres of life? How have “national” experiences been transmitted to children in the renewal of the nation? This edited collection points to the histories of experience and emotions as a novel way of studying nations and nationalism. Building on current debates in nationalism studies, it offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the historical construction of “lived nations,” and introduces a number of new methodological approaches to understand the experiences of the nation, extending from the investigation of personal reminiscences and music records to the study of dreams and children’s drawings.
History of Finland
Author: Henrik Meinander
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-05-15
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0190054026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenrik Meinander paints a brisk and bold picture of the history of Finland from integrated part of the Swedish kingdom to autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian empire, gradually transformed and maturing into a conscious nation, independent state and skilful adapter of modern technology. The main geographical context for his study is the Baltic region, and the author links his analysis to structural developments and turning points in European history. The book blends politics, economy and culture to show how human and natural resources in Finland have been utilized and the impact its cultural heritage and technological innovation have had on its development. In a departure from most conventional approaches, Meinander gives greater emphasis to recent and contemporary events. In other words, he puts Finland into a range of historical contexts in its Baltic and European settings to highlight how both together have formed Finland into what it is at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Finland in World War II
Author: Tiina Kinnunen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-11-25
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 9004208941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on innovative scholarship on Finland in World War II, this volume offers a comprehensive narrative of politics and combat, well-argued analyses of the ideological, social and cultural aspects of a society at war, and novel interpretations of the memory of war.
The Winter War
Author: William R Trotter
Publisher:
Published: 2013-08-08
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781781312261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 30 November 1939, Soviet bombers unloaded their bombs on Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Stalin's ultimatum, demanding the cession of huge tracts of territory as a buffer zone against Nazi Germany, had been rejected by the Finnish government, and now a small Baltic republic was at war with the giant Soviet military machine. But this forgotten war, fought under brutal, sub-arctic conditions, often with great heroism on both sides, proved one of the most astonishing in military history. Using guerrilla fighters on skis, even reindeer to haul supplies on sleds, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, and with unfathomable endurance and the charismatic leadership of one of the 20th century's true military geniuses, Finland not only kept at bay but won an epic, if short-lived, victory over the hapless Russian conscripts. Its surreal engagements included the legendary "Sausage Battle", when starving Soviet troops who had over-run a Finnish encampment couldn't resist the cauldrons of hot sausage soup left behind by their opponents - and were ambushed as they stopped to sup. Although by sheer attritional weight of numbers Stalin eventually prevailed over the Finns, their pointed resistance enabled their country to remain free, even as other countries fell one by one.
Bitter Music
Author: Harry Partch
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780252069130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in paper for the first time, Bitter Music is a generous volume of writings by one of the twentieth century's great musical iconoclasts. Rejecting the equal temperament and concert traditions that have dominated western music, Harry Partch adopted the pure intervals of just intonation and devised a 43-tone-to-the-octave scale, which in turn forced him into inventing numerous musical instruments. His compositions realize his ideal of a corporeal music that unites music, dance, and theater. Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, Bitter Music includes two journals kept by Partch, one while wandering the West Coast during the Depression and the other while hiking the rugged northern California coastline. It also includes essays and discussions by Partch of his own compositions, as well as librettos and scenarios for six major narrative/dramatic compositions.
