Remembering Karelia
Subtitle: a family's story of displacement during and after the Finnish wars
By: Karen Armstrong.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Russia (Federation) -- Karelia.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from the Soviet Union.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Finnish.; Nationalism -- Finland.; Karelia (Russia) -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Personal narratives, Finnish.
Description: "In June 1944, after two wars, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Finnish population of Karelia, nearly eleven percent of the Finnish population, was moved across the new border. The war years, the loss of territory, the resettlement of the Karelian population, and the reparations that had to be paid to the Allied Forces, were experiences shared by most people living in Finland between 1939 and the late 1950s. Using a family's memoirs, the author shows how these traumatic events affected people in all spheres of their lives and how these events are still talked about in Finland."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-156) and index.