Finland in World War II: History, Memory, Interpretations

✍ Scribed by Tiina Kinnunen, Ville Kivimäki

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 597
Series: History of Warfare
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together a rich array of original contributions - hitherto unavailable in English - on Finland during World War II and the place of the war in Finnish collective memory. Providing readers with a solid narrative of the war's political and military framework from a Finnish perspective, this volume also offers well-argued analyses of the ideological, social and cultural aspects of a society at war. As part of the complex legacy of the war it discusses the 'Karelian question' and the Holocaust in Finnish public memory, topics often neglected in international scholarship. Besides a historical narrative, this volume, with its thorough introduction, also reveals to readers the history and current state of Finnish historiography of World War II.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Permissions and Credits for the Illustrations
List of Maps and Tables
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Three Wars and Their Epitaphs The Finnish History and Scholarship of World War II
Ville Kivimäki

Part One. Politics and the Military
1. Finland and the Great Powers in World War II: Ideologies, Geopolitics, Diplomacy
Henrik Meinander
2. The Politics of an Alliance: Finland in Nazi Foreign Policy and War Strategy
Michael Jonas
3. The Finnish Army at War: Operations and Soldiers, 1939–45
Pasi Tuunainen

Part Two. Social Frameworks, Cultural Meanings
4. Wars on the Home Front: Mobilization, Economy and Everyday Experiences
Marianne Junila
5. Meaningless Death or Regenerating Sacrifice? Violence and Social Cohesion in Wartime Finland
Ville Kivimäki & Tuomas Tepora
6. Families, Separation and Emotional Coping in War: Bridging Letters between Home and Front, 1941–44
Sonja Hagelstam

Part Three. Ideologies in Practice
7. War and the Emerging Social State: Social Policy, Public Health and Citizenship in Wartime Finland
Helene Laurent
8. Limits of Intentionality: Soviet Prisoners-of-War and Civilian Internees in Finnish Custody
Oula Silvennoinen
9. Greater Finland and Cultural Heritage: Finnish Scholars in Eastern Karelia, 1941–44
Tenho Pimiä

Part Four. Wars of Memory
10. Shifting Images of “Our Wars”: Finnish Memory Culture of World War II
Tiina Kinnunen & Markku Jokisipilä
11. “Karelia Issue”: The Politics and Memory of Karelia in Finland
Outi Fingerroos
12. Varieties of Silence: Collective Memory of the Holocaust in Finland
Antero Holmila

Selected Bibliography: Studies on Finnish History in World War II in English Writers
Index

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