LEADER 03149nam 2200637 450 001 9910815566603321 005 20230803202005.0 010 $a1-62895-011-0 010 $a1-60917-405-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092637 035 $a(EBL)1810092 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001136261 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11702236 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001136261 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11103263 035 $a(PQKB)10135862 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338353 035 $a(OCoLC)879352453 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35045 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338353 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10845731 035 $a(OCoLC)878136885 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092637 100 $a20130730h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe search for a socialist El Dorado $eFinnish immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s /$fAlexey Golubev and Irina Takala 210 1$aEast Lansing :$cMichigan State University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61186-115-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFinnish 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. 330 $aIn 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 e?migre?s 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 American 606 $aFinnish Americans$zRussia (Federation)$zKarelia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFinns$zRussia (Federation)$zKarelia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aKarelia (Russia)$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aCanada$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1925-1953 615 0$aFinnish Americans$xHistory 615 0$aFinns$xHistory 676 $a305.894/54104715 700 $aGolubev$b Alexey$0792172 702 $aTakala$b Irina 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815566603321 996 $aThe search for a socialist El Dorado$93943660 997 $aUNINA