Author : Karen Armstrong†
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789203635
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Remembering Karelia by : Karen Armstrong†
Download or read book Remembering Karelia written by Karen Armstrong† and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1944, after two wars with the Soviet Union, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Finnish population of Karelia, nearly 11% of the Finnish population, was moved across the new border. The war years, the loss of territory, the resettlement of the Karelian population, and the reparations that had to be paid to the Allied Forces, were experiences shared by most people living in Finland between 1939 and the late 1950s. Using a family's memoirs, the author shows how these traumatic events affected people in all spheres of their lives and also how they coped physically and emotionally.