The soviet-finnish border as a state securitization project in the early 1920s
Journal: JANUS NET e-journal of International Relation
Year: 2023

Undertaking a case study of the Soviet-Finnish border in the 1920s, the article explores how problems of Soviet international borders’ security and Soviet initial responses to them locally played on the ground. It discusses, how the early Soviet border securitization project, intertwining with the Soviet security threats, entailed the first “cleansing” operations in the border zones. It argues that the Soviets engaged in their first “prophylactic cleansing” experiments in the mid-1920s in the re