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The search for a socialist El Dorado : Finnish immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s / Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Golubev, Alexey, author.
- Takala, Irina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finnish Americans--Russia (Federation)--Karelia--History--20th century.
- Finnish Americans.
- Finns--Russia (Federation)--Karelia--History--20th century.
- Finns.
- Karelia (Russia)--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Karelia (Russia).
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Canada.
- Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-011-0
- 1-60917-405-4
- OCLC:
- 879352453
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