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.
Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Description: 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781611861150 (print : alk. paper)
- 9781609174057 (e-book)
- Finnish Americans -- Russia (Federation) -- Karelia -- History -- 20th century
- Finns -- Russia (Federation) -- Karelia -- History -- 20th century
- Karelia (Russia) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
- Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
- 305.894/54104715 23
- DK511.K18 G65 2014eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.