General Information

Author/Creator

Tuominen, Arvo, 1894-1981.

Language

English.

Published

Hanover : University Press of New England, 1983.

Physical Description

xvi, 333 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Heiskanen, Piltti.

Subjects

Subject

Communism > Soviet Union > History.

Communism > Finland > History > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

by Arvo Tuominen ; Piltti Heiskanen, editor ; Lily Leino, translator ; with an introduction by Harrison E. Salisbury.

Note

Excerpts from 5 books and taped interviews.

Includes index.

Content

The way of the hammer and sickle -- Pilgrimage to communism --Lenin's Moscow -- Dirty linen in Petrograd -- Problems of communism -- To Stalin's Moscow -- In a sanatorium in the Caucasus -- The Stalin canal -- The Lenin school in Moscow -- Home life with Kuusinen -- Life on a collective farm -- Joining voluntarily under duress -- The reformation of thieves -- The Communist International seen from within -- The memorandum of the wild rose -- Stalin close up -- Stalin the juggler -- My six personal spies -- The Stalin constitution -- Tha many classes of a "classless society" -- The witch hunts of the 1930s -- Communism devours its children -- Facades -- Kuusinen and his ability to survive -- Four communists in paradise -- Karelia's autonomy -- The tragedy of Karelia -- Departure and reckoning.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

ISBN

0874512492

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	335.43/0947 TUO		General Stacks	-

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