Abstract
THE separatist movement in Eastern Carelia dates from the Soviet régime in Russia. It has now led, on the one hand, to a Soviet attempt to suppress it by force, and on the other to an appeal by the Car. Hans to the League of Nations. The present volume, which was originally published in Finnish and later in Swedish, is in a sense a contribution to that movement in so far as it aims, in a series of papers written by experts, to give an account of the country, its products, history, and inhabitants. For this purpose Kola Lapmark, where the Carelians are not in a majority, is included. It was written before the Treaty of Dorpat, 1920, by which a strip of Russian territory ending in Pechenga Gulf was ceded by Russia to Finland, thus disposing effectively of Finnish claims to Kola Lapmark. The propagandist aim of the book, however, does not obtrude and is mentioned only rarely. The volume is a valuable contribution to the geography of Arctic Europe, and is well illustrated by several maps.
East Carelia and Kola Lapmark. Described by Finnish Scientists and Philologists.
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By. Pp. xiv + 264. (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1921.) 21s. net.
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B., R. East Carelia and Kola Lapmark Described by Finnish Scientists and Philologists . Nature 109, 372 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109372d0
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