03149nam 2200637 450 991081556660332120230803202005.01-62895-011-01-60917-405-4(CKB)3710000000092637(EBL)1810092(SSID)ssj0001136261(PQKBManifestationID)11702236(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001136261(PQKBWorkID)11103263(PQKB)10135862(MiAaPQ)EBC3338353(OCoLC)879352453(MdBmJHUP)muse35045(Au-PeEL)EBL3338353(CaPaEBR)ebr10845731(OCoLC)878136885(EXLCZ)99371000000009263720130730h20142014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe search for a socialist El Dorado Finnish immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s /Alexey Golubev and Irina TakalaEast Lansing :Michigan State University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61186-115-2 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.In the 1930's, thousands of Finns emigrated from their communities in the United States and Canada to Soviet Karelia, a region in the Soviet Union where Finnish Communist émigrés were building a society to implement their ideals of socialist Finland. To their new socialist home, these immigrants brought critically needed skills, tools, machines, and money. Educated and skilled, American and Canadian Finns were regarded by Soviet authorities as agents of revolutionary transformations who would not only modernize the economy of Soviet Karelia, but also enlighten its society. North AmericanFinnish AmericansRussia (Federation)KareliaHistory20th centuryFinnsRussia (Federation)KareliaHistory20th centuryKarelia (Russia)Emigration and immigrationHistory20th centuryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationHistory20th centuryCanadaEmigration and immigrationHistory20th centurySoviet UnionHistory1925-1953Finnish AmericansHistoryFinnsHistory305.894/54104715Golubev Alexey792172Takala IrinaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815566603321The search for a socialist El Dorado3943660UNINA