Finland in World War II: History, Memory, Interpretations (History of Warfare, 69) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004208941 ISBN 13: 9789004208940

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2011

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.Contributors are Outi Fingerroos, Sonja Hagelstam, Antero Holmila, Markku Jokisipilä, Michael Jonas, Marianne Junila, Tiina Kinnunen, Ville Kivimäki, Helene Laurent, Henrik Meinander, Tenho Pimiä, Oula Silvennoinen, Tuomas Tepora, and Pasi Tuunainen.

About this title

About the Author:

Tiina Kinnunen, Ph.D. (2000) in General History, University of Tampere, Finland, is Adjunct Professor at the University of Eastern Finland. She has published on the history of European feminism and historical writing, and Finnish history culture of World War II.
Ville Kivimäki, MA, is a doctoral student of history at the Åbo Akademi University in Finland. He is finishing his PhD thesis on the war trauma and psychiatric treatment of the Finnish soldiers in 1941-45.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9004208941
• ISBN 13: 9789004208940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Kinnunen Tiina, Kivimaki Ville