What an account. Sevander's father was among the leaders of a movement of idealistic Finnish-Americans (from the US and Canada) committed to creating a socialist community in Soviet Karelia. Instead, he and hundreds of others fell victim to Stalin's ruthless paranoia in the purges of the late 1930s.
My father spoke Finglish at work : Finnish Americans in northeast Ohio
β Scribed by Noreen Sippola Fairburn
- Publisher
- Kent State Univ. Press
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- Voices of diversity
- Category
- Library
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