POLITICAL HISTORY

KATRI MAASALO VALtIOneUVOStOn LInnAn 200 VUOttA / StAtSRÅDSBORGenS 200 ÅR / tHe GOVeRnMent PALACe: 200 YeARS

The main building of the Government Palace in Helsinki, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, was completed in 1822 and occupied first by the Imperial Senate and later by the Finnish Government. This book describes its multiple roles over the years as the country's most important and impressive administrative building, a monument to the nation's history and an architectural masterpiece. Published in Finnish, Swedish, English. The Finnish Literature Society • Kirjokansi 270 • ISBN 978-951-858-253-6 • ISSN 2323-7392 • Hard • 174 pp. • € 37

ED. KARI ALENIUS AND VALTERS ŠČERBINSKIS

nÄKÖKULMIA LAtVIALAIS-SUOMALAISIIn SUHteISIIn 1900-LUVUn ALKUVUOSIKYMMenInÄ / PeRSPeCtIVeS On LAtVIAn-FInnISH ReLAtIOnS In tHe eARLY 20tH CentURY

On January 26, 2021, one hundred years had passed since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Latvia and Finland. A two-part online event consisting of a panel discussion and a history seminar was held on February 4, 2021 to celebrate the centenary. This compilation brings together the presentations given at the history seminar that have been expanded and updated into scientific articles. The Historical Association of Northern Finland • Studia Historica Septentrionalia 84 • ISBN 978-952-9888-68-9 • ISSN 0356-8199 • Soft • 145 pp. • € 56

KRISTIINA SILVAN LeGACIeS OF tHe KOMSOMOL

Afterlife of the Leninist Communist Youth League and Contemporary State-Affiliated Youth Activism in Post-Soviet Belarus and Russia

Government-organized youth mobilization in an authoritarian political setting is subject to active debate in academia and the policy-making community. The dissertation addresses this empirical and theoretical gap by examining changes and continuities in the sphere of state-affiliated youth activism in postSoviet Belarus and Russia. It explores the little-known afterlife of the republic-level organizations of the Leninist Communist Youth League of the Soviet Union, the Komsomol. Societas Scientiarum Fennica • Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium 81 • ISBN 978-951-653-478-0 • ISSN 0355-256X • Soft • 115 + app. pp. • € 30

VEERA LAINE nAtIOnALISM AS An ARGUMent In COnteMPORARY RUSSIA

Four perspectives on language in action

This dissertation analyses the uses of the concept of nationalism in Russia from a historical perspective. During the years from 2000 to 2020, the state leadership in Russia adopted increasingly authoritarian policies vis-à-vis society, and started to portray Russia as being under an external threat. The annexation of Crimea and the onset of the war in Ukraine in 2014 solidified the way in which recent political changes in Russia were characterized as “growing nationalism”. Societas Scientiarum Fennica • Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium 80 • ISBN 978-951-653-469-8 • ISSN 0355-256X • Soft • 117 pp. • € 25

ALEKSI HUHTA tOWARD A ReD MeLtInG POt

The Racial Thinking of Finnish-American Radicals, 1900–1938

This dissertation examines the racial thinking of Finnish radicals in the early twentieth century United States. It studies how and why Finnish radical immigrants used racial ideas to describe and explain human difference. It also examines how and why Finnish thinking on race changed during this time. The study focuses on the time period between 1900 and the late 1930s. During these years, Finns formed one of the largest immigrant groups in the Socialist Party, the IWW and the Communist Party. The Finnish Society for Labour History • Papers on Labour History 8 • ISBN 978-952-5976-91-5 • Soft • 452 pp. • € 25

RISTO TURUNEN SHADeS OF ReD

Evolution of the Political Language of Finnish Socialism from the 19th Century until the Civil War of 1918

Skillfully integrating labour history, the history of concepts and digital humanities, Shades of Red is a comprehensive and detailed examination of Finnish socialism and its vernacular varieties. An essential case study for students of socialist mobilisations in late imperial Russia and across the globe, as well as political languages in general. The Finnish Society for Labour History • Papers on Labour History 9 • ISBN 978-952-5976-97-7 • ISSN 0783-005X • Soft • 523 pp. • € 25