Irtolaisuus ja sen kontrolli 1800-luvun alun Suomessa

In the present study, the investigation of social attitudes has been operationalized by studying the control directed by Finnish society towards one of its marginal groups, the vagrants, in the beginning of the 19th century. As vagrancy had not in fact been officed by legislation as a crime but as its consequences (deprivation of freedom) were much the same as those of actual criminality, 1t 1s Justifiable also from the point of view of the legal protection of the contemporary individual, to look into the question of how the decision of depriving a person of his freedom was reached. Because vagrancy, according to the existing servant and recruiting regulations, reformed in the beginning of …

Itsemurha suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa

This study will examine the history of suicide in Finnish society. The approach to the problem will be through an examination of the legislation concerning suicide, of popular - beliefs, the attitude of the Church to suicide, the measures taken by officials, and the opinions on suicide during the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th century, with its concomitant factors: facts, attitudes and norms' The questions is one of how the problem posed by suicide was treated and experienced. The study will also treat the facts regarded as being at the background of the suicides. The principal source for the study is a body of statistics, on the surface exact and accurate, but in fact containin…

Itä-Karjalan pakolaiset 1917-1922

This research is dealing with the exiles (about 12 000 in number) who for political or equivalent reasons arrived at Finland from Russian and Aunus Karelia. None before has studied what this group of exiles was like in its composition. No analysis concerning the arrangement of the exile relief measures in Finland has been done, either. When looking for the answer to the question why the exiles were forced to leave their native region, the researchers have tried to shed light on the political conditions in East-Karelia and first of all on the basic features of the so-called East-Karelian Autonomy Movement as well as the later anti-Soviet Movement: i.e. the groups supporting the anti-Soviet M…

Monelta kantilta : Ilkka Nummelalle omistettu juhlakirja

Historians on Finland’s Status in the Russian Empire

Suomalainen äärioikeisto maailmansotien välillä : ideologiset juuret, järjestöllinen perusta ja toimintamuodot

This study deals with the Finnish extreme right between the World Wars. A special attention has been given to the ideology and procedures of the extreme right, because they have not been dealt with systematically in earlier research. But the study also considers such aspects of the extreme right as the historical roots going back to the 19th century, the personal traditions and social-political characteristics. The Finnish extreme right was at no stage uniform. Between the World Wars it became organized into several separate associations. They were ideologically combinations of both national and international currents of ideas of that period. Their ideologies consisted of a very early roman…