Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Note on Sources
Chapter 1. Event and Meaning
- Inkilä, 1997
- Community Discourse
- The Historical Context
Chapter 2. Subjective Meaning
- Routines and Rituals
- The Lutheran Church in Kirvu
- Residual Structures
Chapter 3. Significant Worlds
- Topogeny
- The Text as a World
Chapter 4. Genealogical Narratives
- Marriage and Alliance Origins
- A House Called Poja-Aatam
- The Central Story: Eskola House
- Karelian House Society
Chapter 5. Kinship and Nation
- Getting Married
- Inheritance Exchange and Transmission
Chapter 6. Wartime: A National Event
- Individual Voices and Collective Memory
- The Civil War and Its Aftermath
- Sivistys Women and Sacrifice in War
- Extraordinary Noted Narratives and National Events
- Patriotism
Chapter 7. Mamma hyvä: Meaning and Value in Letters
- Apples and Sugar
- Living Properly
- Rhubarb and Cultural Transmission
Chapter 8. Towards Mythology
- The First Evacuation
- Experiencing Otherness
- Back Home in Inkilä
- The Second Evacuation
- End of War, 1944 Boundaries
Chapter 9. Conclusion: National Political Culture
Notes
References
Index
