Finland in World War II

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.

• AcknowledgementsPermissions and Credits for the IllustrationsList of Maps and TablesList of AbbreviationsIntroductionThree Wars and Their Epitaphs The Finnish History and Scholarship of World War IIVille KivimäkiPart One. Politics and the Military1. Finland and the Great Powers in World War II: Ideologies, Geopolitics, DiplomacyHenrik Meinander2. The Politics of an Alliance: Finland in Nazi Foreign Policy and War StrategyMichael Jonas3. The Finnish Army at War: Operations and Soldiers, 1939–45Pasi TuunainenPart Two. Social Frameworks, Cultural Meanings4. Wars on the Home Front: Mobilization, Economy and Everyday ExperiencesMarianne Junila5. Meaningless Death or Regenerating Sacrifice? Violence and Social Cohesion in Wartime FinlandVille Kivimäki & Tuomas Tepora6. Families, Separation and Emotional Coping in War: Bridging Letters between Home and Front, 1941–44Sonja HagelstamPart Three. Ideologies in Practice 7. War and the Emerging Social State: Social Policy, Public Health and Citizenship in Wartime FinlandHelene Laurent8. Limits of Intentionality: Soviet Prisoners-of-War and Civilian Internees in Finnish CustodyOula Silvennoinen9. Greater Finland and Cultural Heritage: Finnish Scholars in Eastern Karelia, 1941–44Tenho PimiäPart Four. Wars of Memory10. Shifting Images of “Our Wars”: Finnish Memory Culture of World War IITiina Kinnunen & Markku Jokisipilä11. “Karelia Issue”: The Politics and Memory of Karelia in FinlandOuti Fingerroos12. Varieties of Silence: Collective Memory of the Holocaust in FinlandAntero HolmilaSelected Bibliography: Studies on Finnish History in World War II in EnglishWriters Index