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Author: Lawrence Hokkanen
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1934 Russia invited many Finnish-American couples to accept jobs in Karelia, Russia. In 1941, the Stalin purges resulted in the arrest and death of many from that community. Lauri and Sylvi escaped only to discover distrust at home.
Author: Karen Armstrong
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn June 1944, after two wars with the Soviet Union, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Finnish population of Karelia, nearly 11% of the Finnish population, was moved across the new border. The war years, the loss of territory, the resettlement of the Karelian population, and the reparations that had to be paid to the Allied Forces, were experiences shared by most people living in Finland between 1939 and the late 1950s. Using a family's memoirs, the author shows how these traumatic events affected people in all spheres of their lives and also how they coped physically and emotionally.
Author: Nick Baron
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1134383568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland, into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could be achieved by socialist nationalities policy and economic planning, and to encourage other countries to follow this example. However, Stalin’s accession to power brought a change of policy towards the periphery - the encouragement of local autonomy which had been a key part of Karelia’s model development was reversed, the state border was sealed to the outside world, and large parts of the republic's territory were given over to Gulag labour camps controlled by the NKVD, the precursor of the KGB. This book traces the evolution of Soviet Karelia in the early Soviet period, discussing amongst other things how political relations between Moscow and the regional leadership changed over time; the nature of its spatial, economic and demographic development; and the origins of the massive repressions launched in 1937 against the local population.
Author: Naomi Moriyama
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 164313647X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat would happen if you built one of the world’s most advanced societies inside a forest—and strove to make made women full partners in power? After living for twenty-five years in New York, Naomi Moriyama moved with her husband and co-author William Doyle and their seven-year-old child to the vast forest of Finland's Karelia, a mysterious region on the Russian border that helped inspire J.R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth fantasies. She entered a life-altering zone of tranquility, peace, and beauty, the spiritual heart of the nation ranked as the happiest nation on Earth, with among the world's most empowered women. Finland is also the country with cleanest air and water and the best schools, a country where motherhood and fatherhood are championed by law, childhood is revered, schoolchildren are required to play outdoors multiple times a day, and trains contain mini-libraries and mini-playgrounds for children to enjoy. It was here in the Karelian forest that Naomi found a culinary symphony of succulent wild edibles, herbs, berries, mushrooms and fish, all freshly plucked from the moss-carpeted forest and sparkling clear streams. She also found something that changed her life—a tribe of invincible women who became her soul-sisters. As an idyllic summer and fall gave way to a sub-Arctic winter of mind-bending darkness and cold, Naomi faced her fears and her future. Over the course of six unforgettable months with her family and her new “sisters”, she found her life transformed, and discovered the power that lay within her all along. Then she tried to leave. But she kept coming back. Come, take a journey deep into Europe's most distant, magical wilderness, and join the sisterhood of the enchanted forest.
Author: Karelia Stetz-Waters
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2021-06
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781538735527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpposites attract in this playful and laugh-out-loud rom-com from Lambda Award finalist Karelia Stetz-Waters. Cade Elgin has a life and career in New York City, and she's determined to get back to both as soon as possible after her aunt's funeral in Portland. However, when she unexpectedly inherits her aunt's sex toy store -- and has to save it from foreclosure -- Cade realizes she's not going anywhere. But making Share the Love profitable won't be as easy as Cade had hoped. Her new partner has an infuriating lack of business sense, and an infuriating ability to turn Cade on. Selena Mathis knows that nothing is more important than saving Share the Love. Not her pride, not her inconvenient attraction toward her new business partner. Cade may be more buttoned-up than Selena usually goes for, but that doesn't mean she doesn't know how to turn the store around. But the more they work together, the harder it becomes for Selena to ignore her growing feelings for Cade. And she starts to wonder if there is something more important than saving Share the Love.
Author: Alexey Golubev
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 1628950110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 émigrés 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.
Author: Алексей Калинин
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2022-01-29
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 504329910X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking into account that in 2020 the Republic of Karelia marks its 100th anniversary, Ajax-PRESS publishing house presents the first guidebook for foreigners in English language in the series “ПОЛИГЛОТ” – about the most beautiful and interesting places of this multifaceted region.Year by year, the tourists flow to the Republic is growing, and now it has already reached 1.320.000 people per year. In the summer of 2019, travelers from 81 (!) countries visited the region. They are lovers of fishing and pilgrims to the Holy places, hunters to the pristine nature and tourists. Karelia offers holidays for every taste, even for the most demanding. Important to say, that the new unique mountain Park «Ruskeala» is noted as “an important place on the planet, necessary to visit” by British newspaper Daily Telegraph.Itineraries Around KareliaI Petrozavodsk is the City of Military Glory Itinerary 1. A Walking Tour of the City Itinerary 2. South of Petrozavodsk II Karelian Priladozhye (Lake Ladoga Coastal Area of Karelia) Itinerary 3. Sortavala District Itinerary 4. Lakhdenpokhya District Itinerary 5. Pitkyaranta District Itinerary 6. Olonets District III Northwest of Lake Onegо Itinerary 7. Kondopoga District Itinerary 8. Pryazha Interlakes Area Itinerary 9. Pryazha District IV Zaonezhye and the Eastern Shore of Obonezhye Itinerary 10. Medvezhyegorsk District Itinerary 11. Pudozh District V Northern Karelia Itinerary 12. White Sea Coastal Area of Karelia Itinerary 13. Karelian Pomorie (Coastal Area)
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Published: 1920
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vesa Puuronen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-27
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1351775685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2000: The book is aimed at uncovering certain features of the future of Karelia, which is partly situated in Russia and Finland. The authors believe that this can be done by studying in depth the opinions, values, norms, beliefs, fears and hopes of young people living in two neighbouring but profoundly different societies: Russia and Finland. Young people are constructing these societies in the 20th century. The book is based on a comparative research project, financed by the Academy of Finland, which was carried out during 1995-1997 by an international, inter-disciplinary research group. The novelty of the book is based on the use of different research methods and theoretical starting points. One of the crucial questions raised by the book concerns the applicability of Western theories in research into Russian society and people. The analysis shows that many of the concepts applied frequently in Western social sciences do not apply in research relating to Russian specific culture. The book proposes that more attention should be paid to the challenges of comparative research.
Author: Mats Fridlund
Publisher: Helsinki University Press
Published: 2020-12-07
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9523690213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical scholarship is currently undergoing a digital turn. All historians have experienced this change in one way or another, by writing on word processors, applying quantitative methods on digitalized source materials, or using internet resources and digital tools. Digital Histories showcases this emerging wave of digital history research. It presents work by historians who – on their own or through collaborations with e.g. information technology specialists – have uncovered new, empirical historical knowledge through digital and computational methods. The topics of the volume range from the medieval period to the present day, including various parts of Europe. The chapters apply an exemplary array of methods, such as digital metadata analysis, machine learning, network analysis, topic modelling, named entity recognition, collocation analysis, critical search, and text and data mining. The volume argues that digital history is entering a mature phase, digital history ‘in action’, where its focus is shifting from the building of resources towards the making of new historical knowledge. This also involves novel challenges that digital methods pose to historical research, including awareness of the pitfalls and limitations of the digital tools and the necessity of new forms of digital source criticisms. Through its combination of empirical, conceptual and contextual studies, Digital Histories is a timely and pioneering contribution taking stock of how digital research currently advances historical scholarship.
