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Remembering Karelia : A Family's Story of Displacement During and after the Finnish Wars

By Karen Armstrong

Book information

Publisher
Incorporated, Berghahn Books
Year
2004
ISBN
9781789203639, 9781571816504
LCC
D764.7.K28 A758 2003
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7335850 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
170\170
Time added
2023-08-23 21:00:34
HIS037070; SOC002000

Description

In June 1944, after two wars with the Soviet Union, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Finnish population of Karelia, nearly 11% 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 also how they coped physically and emotionally.

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