The Resource 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
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
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- Summary
- 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 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 immigrants, indeed, became active participants of socialist colonization of what Bolshevik leaders perceived as dark, uneducated and backward Soviet ethnic periphery. The Search for a Socialist El Dorado is the first comprehensive account in English of this fascinating story. Using a vast body of documentary sources from archives in Petrozavodsk and Moscow, Russian- and Finnish-language press and literature from the 1930s, oral history interviews and secondary literature, Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala explore in depth the 2Karelian fever3 among Finnish Americans and Canadians, and the lives of immigrants in the Soviet Union, their contribution to Soviet economy and culture, and their fates in the Great Terror. --Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 236 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781611861150
- Label
- The search for a socialist El Dorado : Finnish immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s
- Title
- The search for a socialist El Dorado
- Title remainder
- Finnish immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s
- Statement of responsibility
- Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala
- Subject
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- Karelia (Russia) -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
- United States -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
- Canada -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
- Finnish Americans -- Russia (Federation) | Karelia -- History -- 20th century
- Finns -- Russia (Federation) | Karelia -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 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 immigrants, indeed, became active participants of socialist colonization of what Bolshevik leaders perceived as dark, uneducated and backward Soviet ethnic periphery. The Search for a Socialist El Dorado is the first comprehensive account in English of this fascinating story. Using a vast body of documentary sources from archives in Petrozavodsk and Moscow, Russian- and Finnish-language press and literature from the 1930s, oral history interviews and secondary literature, Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala explore in depth the 2Karelian fever3 among Finnish Americans and Canadians, and the lives of immigrants in the Soviet Union, their contribution to Soviet economy and culture, and their fates in the Great Terror. --Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Golubev, Alexey
- Dewey number
- 305.894/54104715
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DK511.K18
- LC item number
- G65 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Takala, Irina
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Finnish Americans
- Finns
- Karelia (Russia)
- United States
- Canada
- Soviet Union
- Label
- 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
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- 854906198
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 236 pages
- Isbn
- 9781611861150
- Isbn Type
- (print : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013023031
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)854906198
- Label
- 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
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- 854906198
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 236 pages
- Isbn
- 9781611861150
- Isbn Type
- (print : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013023031
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)854906198
Subject
- Karelia (Russia) -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
- United States -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
- Canada -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
- Finnish Americans -- Russia (Federation) | Karelia -- History -- 20th century
- Finns -- Russia (Federation) | Karelia -- History -- 20th century
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