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Karelian exodus: Finnish communities in North America and Soviet Karelia during the depression era.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-JUN-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Karelian exodus: Finnish communities in North America and Soviet Karelia during the depression era.(Book Review)

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Karelian exodus: Finnish communities in North America and Soviet Karelia during the depression era. Ronald Harpelle, Varpu Lindstrom, and Alexis E. Pogorelskin, eds. Beaverton, ON: Aspasia, 2004. 226 pp. $24.00 sc.

Emigration from North America to the Soviet Union is a topic that has so far received much less scholarly attention than it deserves. Migration and social historians remain largely unaware of the extent to which Soviet Russia served as a magnet for thousands of workers across the globe (including former emigrants from the Russian Empire) eager to participate in the building of the world's first proletarian state. This reviewed volume, a product of a conference held at Lakehead University in May 2004, fills an important void in the study of emigration from the United States and Canada to the...

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