Karelia: A Finnish-American Couple in Stalin's Russia

by Anita Middleton, Sylvia Hokkanen, Lawrence Hokkanen

Release Date: 01 September, 1991

Edition: Paperback

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nifty book

the guy who wrote the book was the brother of one of my aunt's very dear friends. she let me borrow it a few weeks ago and i got a big kick out of it because i'd heard stories of the people involved, specifically the sister, irja. i'd recommend it to anyone who likes hearing stories from relatives. this wasn't written like a technical history book. it was written like your grandparents are sitting around one day giving you their history.

An Incredilbe Surprise for an History Illiterate

This was an interesting story about an era in American and Soviet history about which I and most people are unaware, told from the perspective of two people who lived the story. It's a warm, human story of a young idealistic couple traveling from the American depression to a new country, Karelia, a Russian province, to create the perfect society and their disillusionment when the Stalin regime dashed any prospect of achieving that dream.