In the Abyss of Civil War: Karelians in Search of Survival Strategies. 1917–1922

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In the Abyss of Civil War: Karelians in Search of Survival Strategies. 1917–1922

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The book is dedicated to the events of the civil war that unfolded on the territory of Russian Karelia. In 1918-1922, the Karelian regions were in the focus of confrontation between various military and political forces: detachments of the Red Army and the white Northern government, units of the Entente and Red Finns, the Karelian detachment and Finnish volunteer units fought here. Considerable attention is paid to the role of the young Finnish state and a group of Finnish activists who inspired three volunteer trips to Karelia. In the center of the monograph is the Karelian peasantry. Using materials from Finnish archives unknown to the Russian reader, the authors analyze the political psychology of the Karelian peasant, who found himself in the center of a fierce military confrontation, and show the most striking manifestations of peasant strategies. For the first time, the reader gets the opportunity to get acquainted with the reports and memoirs of Finnish volunteers, interviews and memoirs of Karelian peasants - participants in the events - and Finnish politicians, materials of the Finnish General Staff and other unique documents. The monograph pays special attention to such still little-studied manifestations of peasant activism as the Karelian regiment and the Provisional Committee of the White Sea Karelia, which headed the Karelian quasi-state formation in the north-west of the region. Separate chapters are devoted to the creation of the Karelian Labor Commune and the Karelian uprising, which became the last attempt to create an independent, non-Bolshevik Karelian national state.

Barcode: 9785446920037 SKU: 70148625 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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