Tradition and literature are not held back by borders. Transnationality is, for example, geographic, symbolic, or linguistic movement and action. Different kinds of cultural transitions and migrant traditions are connected with transnationality. Studying the multilingualism of literary texts or diverse cultural identities, transnationality is a prolific angle. In the 102nd Yearbook of the Kalevala Society Foundation, the topics cover for example migration and return migration, material things crossing borders, and places of music culture. At a more theoretical level we are asking how studying transnationality enriches the disciplines with roots in the national sciences.
The focus of this research is on Finland's role in Soviet Union's calculation of its foreign policy between 1920 and 1930. This was the first decade of both Finnish independence and of Soviet power in Russia. This book answers questions about the objectives of Soviet foreign policy in Finland, on the contacts used by the Soviet legation to obtain information, and on how well the Soviets understood Finland's objectives. People interested in Finland and in Russian perspectives with regards to foreign policy and neighbouring countries will find much new in this book because it relies on formerly unpublished Russian archival material to form the basis for charting Soviet objectives in Finland. The book shows that the Soviets primarily observed Finland in a larger regional context along with other states on its borders in the Baltic Sea region. The global objectives of the revolution and the Soviet Union, but also the domestic political situation in both countries, are reflected on this framework. The period was characterized by forced collectivization in the Soviet Union and, in Finland, by the rise of the right-wing Lapua Movement that emerged at the onset of the Great Depression, laying the foundations for the most severe crisis in the relations during 1929–1930 when the issues surrounding these events destabilized simultaneously the society and political decision-making in both countries
The focus of this research is on Finland's role in Soviet Union's calculation of its foreign policy between 1920 and 1930. This was the first decade of both Finnish independence and of Soviet power in Russia. This book answers questions about the objectives of Soviet foreign policy in Finland, on the contacts used by the Soviet legation to obtain information, and on how well the Soviets understood Finland's objectives. People interested in Finland and in Russian perspectives with regards to foreign policy and neighbouring countries will find much new in this book because it relies on formerly unpublished Russian archival material to form the basis for charting Soviet objectives in Finland. The book shows that the Soviets primarily observed Finland in a larger regional context along with other states on its borders in the Baltic Sea region. The global objectives of the revolution and the Soviet Union, but also the domestic political situation in both countries, are reflected on this framework. The period was characterized by forced collectivization in the Soviet Union and, in Finland, by the rise of the right-wing Lapua Movement that emerged at the onset of the Great Depression, laying the foundations for the most severe crisis in the relations during 1929–1930 when the issues surrounding these events destabilized simultaneously the society and political decision-making in both countries.
La actual crisis económico-financiera en la que se encuentran sumidos muchos países desarrollados, ante todo de la Unión Europea, está muy relacionada con las últimas transformaciones y adaptaciones del sistema capitalista, las nuevas ofensivas neoliberales y la falacia sobre la que se sustenta la construcción europea, que desde sus orígenes ha estado supeditada al capital financiero alemán. Esta crisis económica, financiera y de la deuda está sirviendo para aplicar unos planes de ajuste que recaen sobre las clases sociales más desfavorecidas y empobrecen a los países más vulnerables. Las consecuencias de esta situación crítica pueden ser imprevisibles mientras siga en pie ese megaproyecto capitalista, imperialista, financiero y burgués llamado Unión Europea. El futuro pasa por construir unos Estados Unidos Socialistas de Europa, donde se superen las fronteras nacionales, haya una integración política plena y la propiedad de los medios de producción sea pública. ; The current economic and financial crisis in which many developed countries, first and foremost of the European Union, are mired is closely related to recent transformations and adaptations of the capitalist system, the new neoliberal offensive and the fallacy on which is based the construction of Europe, which since its inception has been subject to the German financial capital. This economic, financial and debt crisis is serving to implement plans setting that they fall on the most disadvantaged social classes and impoverish the most vulnerable countries. The consequences of this critical situation can be unpredictable while still standing that mega financial and bourgeois capitalist, imperialist project called European Union. The future is to build a Socialist United States of Europe, where national borders are exceeded, has a full political integration and ownership of the means of production is public.