Samira Saramo

Building That Bright Future

Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Building that Bright Future examines letters and memoirs of Finnish North Americans to provide a rare glimpse of daily life in the 1930s from the edge of the Soviet Union.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781487504809
• ISBN-10: 1487504802
• Artikelnr.: 62851853

Autorenporträt

Samira Saramo is a Kone Foundation Senior Researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

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. Isn’t 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