Their Ideals Were Crushed : a Daughter’s Story of the Säde Commune in Soviet Karelia

• Main Author: Zlobina, Vieno
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Siirtolaisuusinstituutti 2017
• Subjects: ulkosuomalaiset; suomalaiset; siirtolaiset; ihanteet; ideologiat; kommunismi; perustaminen; kommuunit; poliittinen väkivalta; stalinismi; poliittinen historia; henkilöhistoria; Neuvosto-Karjala; Neuvostoliitto; expatriate Finns; Finns; immigrants; ideals; ideologies; communism; founding (establishment); communes; political violence; Stalinism; political history; biographical history; Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; Soviet Union; Augustana; Canada; karelian
• Online Access: https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/178113

As a young girl, Vieno Zlobina moved with her parents from Cobalt in Canada to Soviet Karelia, and tells the story of an idealistic Finnish community, the Säde Commune (säde means´ray of light´), from its foundation, through the years when it flourished, to its final destruction. Vieno’s family, lik...