Table of Contents

Acknowledgments…vii
List of Figures and Maps…viii
List of Contributors …x
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Introduction: The Finnish Civil War, Revolution, and Scholarship…1
Tuomas Tepora and Aapo Roselius

Part 1: War and its Prelude
1 The Expected and Non-Expected Roots of Chaos: Preconditions of the Finnish Civil War…21
Pertti Haapala
2 Being absorbed into an Unintended War…51
Juha Siltala
3 Warfare and Terror in 1918…90
Marko Tikka
4 Holy War: Finnish Irredentist Campaigns in the Aftermath of the Civil War…119
Aapo Roselius

Part 2: Cultural Contents and Wartime Experiences
5 The Mystifijied War: Regeneration and Sacrifijice…159
Tuomas Tepora
6 Women at War…201
Tiina Lintunen
7 War through the Children’s Eyes…230
Marianne Junila
8 Masculinities and the Ideal Warrior: Images of the Jäger Movement…254
Anders Ahlback

Part 3: Interpretations and Remembrance
9 The War of Liberation, the Civil Guards, and the Veterans’ Union: Public Memory in the Interwar Period…297
Aapo Roselius
10 To Commemorate or Not: The Finnish Labor Movement and the Memory of the Civil War in the Interwar Period…331
Tauno Saarela
11 Changing Perceptions of 1918: World War II and Post-War Rise of the Left…364
Tuomas Tepora
12 The Post-Cold War Memory Culture of the Civil War: Old-New Patterns and New Approaches…401
Tiina Kinnunen

Select Bibliography…441
Index…444
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About the Author

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), University of Helsinki, is an independent researcher. He has published on Civil War terror and commemoration.