Chapter Seven. “Karelia Is Soaked in the Blood of Innocent People”: Writing about the Great Terror

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. Map of Karelia x
6. Introduction 3
7. The Life Writers 11
8. Chapter One. The Call of Karjala: Contextualizing the Karelian “Fever” 20
9. Chapter Two. “Our Comrades Are Leaving Again”: Moving to Soviet Karelia 41
10. Chapter Three. “Of Course Not Like There”: Karelian Living Conditions as Experienced by Finnish North Americans 59
11. Chapter Four. “The Golden Fund of Karelia”: Childhood in Finnish North American Karelia 84
12. Chapter Five. “Isn’t It a Different Land, This Sickle and Hammer Land?”: Working in Soviet Karelia 102
13. Chapter Six. “All Kinds of Hustle and Bustle”: Community Life and Leisure 123
14. Chapter Seven. “Karelia Is Soaked in the Blood of Innocent People”: Writing about the Great Terror 149
15. Conclusion 178
16. Notes 187
17. Bibliography 231
18. Index 247