Finnish Civil War 1918

Tuomas Tepora, Ph.D. (2011), University of Helsinki, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Helsinki. He has published on the cultural history of war and on the history of emotions related to the Finnish war experiences in the 20th century.Aapo Roselius, Ph.D. (2011), University of Helsinki, is an independent researcher. He has published on Civil War terror and commemoration.

• Acknowledgments…viiList of Figures and Maps…viiiList of Contributors …xxiiIntroduction: The Finnish Civil War, Revolution, and Scholarship…1Tuomas Tepora and Aapo RoseliusPart 1: War and its Prelude1 The Expected and Non-Expected Roots of Chaos: Preconditions of the Finnish Civil War…21Pertti Haapala2 Being absorbed into an Unintended War…51Juha Siltala3 Warfare and Terror in 1918…90Marko Tikka4 Holy War: Finnish Irredentist Campaigns in the Aftermath of the Civil War…119Aapo RoseliusPart 2: Cultural Contents and Wartime Experiences5 The Mystifijied War: Regeneration and Sacrifijice…159Tuomas Tepora6 Women at War…201Tiina Lintunen7 War through the Children’s Eyes…230Marianne Junila8 Masculinities and the Ideal Warrior: Images of the Jäger Movement…254Anders AhlbackPart 3: Interpretations and Remembrance9 The War of Liberation, the Civil Guards, and the Veterans’ Union: Public Memory in the Interwar Period…297Aapo Roselius10 To Commemorate or Not: The Finnish Labor Movement and the Memory of the Civil War in the Interwar Period…331Tauno Saarela11 Changing Perceptions of 1918: World War II and Post-War Rise of the Left…364Tuomas Tepora12 The Post-Cold War Memory Culture of the Civil War: Old-New Patterns and New Approaches…401Tiina KinnunenSelect Bibliography…441Index…444454ContentsTable