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.

In 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 m̌igrš were building a society to implement their ideals of socialist Finland. To their new socialist home, these immigrants brou...

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Main Authors: Golubev, Alexey (Author), Takala, Irina (Author)
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Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2014]
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