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4 paź 2016 · Several thousand foreigners from all over the world are now permanently living in the Russian republic of Karelia. Interestingly, most of them were brought there by love – for their family, for...
From the time of Peter the Great: Exploring Karelia’s wooden shrines - Russia Beyond. JOIN. Historian photographer William Brumfield retraces legendary Prokudin-Gorsky’s final trip to...
After the defeat of the Red Finns in the 1918 Finnish civil war, there was an influx into Soviet Russia of Finnish Communists.3 Like other educated Finns of their day, their leaders saw East or Russian Karelia (Itai-Karjala, "Far Karelia" [Kauko-Karjala] or "Karelia-beyond-the border" [rajantakainen Karjala]) as an inalienable part of Finnish cu...
The written literature of Karelia was formed at the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1930s Karelian and Veps languages gained a writing system, but during the Stalinist repressions many books in Veps and Karelian were burned and cultural figures were deported. [106]
17 paź 2016 · The native inhabitants of the Republic of Karelia, one of Russia’s most beautiful regions located along the border with Finland, are seeking ways to maintain their traditional culture in the...
13 gru 2007 · This book traces the evolution of Soviet Karelia in the early Soviet period, discussing amongst other things how political relations between Moscow and the regional leadership changed over time; the nature of its spatial, economic and demographic development; and the origins of the massive repressions launched in 1937 against the local population.
31 lip 2007 · This book on the history of Karelia is in two parts. Nick Baron’s engaging study of Philip Woods’ life and times is followed by Woods’ own entertaining and historically important memoir of Britain’s ill-fated intervention in Karelia during the Russian civil war, published here for the first time.
