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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 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Golubev, Alexey (Author), Takala, Irina (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Finnish Americans > Russia (Federation) > Karelia > History > 20th century.
Finns > Russia (Federation) > Karelia > History > 20th century.
Karelia (Russia) > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953.
Table of 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.