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They Took My Father: Finnish Americans in Stalin's Russia
"Mayme Sevander and Laurie Hertzel tell a poignant tale of a hidden corner of U.S. and Soviet history. Tracing the hopes and hardships of one family over two continents, They Took My Father explores the boundaries of loyalty, identity, and ideals." -Amy Goldstein, Washington Post
"What makes Mayme's story so uniquely-almost unbelievably-tragic is that her fam
...morePaperback, 208 pages
Published
January 15th 2004
by University Of Minnesota Press
(first published January 2004)
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This was an interesting read about a little known aspect of U.S. history. Thousands of Finnish-Americans living in the upper mid-west were recruited to move to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. This book talks about the story of one such family, and the hardships they endured in Stalinist Russia. This is a good read if you are interested in Soviet, Finnish, or U.S. history. As someone who grew up near many of the mid-western cities mentioned, this was a revealing look at some of our forgotten s...more
I was interested in the connection of the Finnish of Northern Minnesota where I visited last summer and the socialist idealism that took this family back to Russia and through World War II.
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