A moving river of tears : Russia's experience in Finland
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A moving river of tears : Russia's experience in Finland
（American university studies, Series XII,
P. Lang, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-266) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume surveys the Russian effort throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries to unite Russian and Finnish literature. The book discusses various contacts, meetings, disagreements, and conflicts between the Russians and the Finns in their interrelationship in the area of Russian literature and the Russian language. Diverse historical sources and literary documents are cited. It is a study that reveals the Russian literary endeavor in Finland from 1808 to 1956, which glorified the idea of beauty, grace, and refinement, qualities of the artistic temperament stifled by the Bolsheviks.
Table of Contents
Contents: Russian literary activities in Finland, 1808-1956. The devastated world of Russian writers in Finland after the Revolution of 1917. Russian emigre writers and Russian refugees in Finland and their newspapers and Journals.
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