Building That Bright Future (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
278
Utgivningsdatum
2022-07-14
Förlag
University of Toronto Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
unspecified 15 b&w illustrations & 1 b&w map 15 Illustrations
Illustrationer
15 b&w illustrations & 1 b&w map
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 25 mm
Vikt
9 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781487504809

Building That Bright Future

Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2022-07-14
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In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers society. They were recruited by the Soviet leadership for their North American mechanical and lumber expertise, their familiarity with the socialist cause, and their Finnish language and ethnicity. By 1936, however, Finnish culture and language came under attack and ethnic Finns became the regions primary targets in the Stalinist Great Terror. Building That Bright Future relies on the personal letters and memoirs of these Finnish migrants to build a history of everyday life during a transitional period for both North American socialism and Soviet policy. Highlighting the voices of men, women, and children, the book follows the migrants from North America to the Soviet Union, providing vivid descriptions of daily life. Samira Saramo brings readers into personal contact with Finnish North Americans and their complex and intimate negotiations of self and belonging. Through letters and memoirs, Building That Bright Future explores the multiple strategies these migrants used to make sense of their rapidly shifting positions in the Soviet hierarchy and the relationships that rooted them to multiple places and times.
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Samira Saramo is a Kone Foundation Senior Researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland.

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Map of Karelia Introduction 1. The Question of Karjala: Contextualizing the Karelian Fever 2. Our Comrades Are Leaving Again: Moving to Soviet Karelia 3. ... Of Course Not Like There: Karelian Living Conditions as Experienced by Finnish North Americans 4. The Golden Fund of Karelia: Childhood in Finnish North American Karelia 5. Isnt It a Different Land, This Sickle and Hammer Land?: Working in Soviet Karelia 6. All Kinds of Hustle and Bustle: Social Life, Community Involvement, and Leisure 7. Karelia Is Soaked in the Blood of Innocent People: Writing about the Great Terror Conclusion Bibliography