Tepora T., Roselius A. (eds.) The Finnish Civil War 1918: History, Memory, Legacy

Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 456 p. — (History of Warfare, 101).The Finnish Civil War 1918 offers a rich account of the history and memory of the short conflict between socialist Reds and non-socialist Whites in the winter and spring of 1918. It also traces the legacy of the bloody war in Finnish society until today. The volume brings together established scholarship of political and social history with newer approaches stemming from the cultural history of war, memory studies, gender studies, history of emotions, psychohistory and oral history. The contributors provide readers with a solid discussion of the Civil War within its international and national frameworks. Among themes discussed are violence and terror, enemy images, Finnish irredentist campaigns in Soviet Karelia and the complex memory of the conflict. Besides a historical narrative, the volume discusses the current state of historiography of the Finnish Civil War.Contributors are Anders Ahlbäck, Pertti Haapala, Marianne Junila, Tiina Kinnunen, Tiina Lintunen, Aapo Roselius, Tauno Saarela, Juha Siltala, Tuomas Tepora and Marko Tikka.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) is a postdoctoral researcher who graduated from the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published books on the terror and the commemoration of the Finnish Civil War. Currently he is working on a study of public memory in Finland after the end of the Soviet Union.