Introduction to the Forum: Civil Wars, Visions of Statehood, and Quasi-State Actors in the Northwest of the Former Russian Empire
Alexey Golubev, Alexander Osipov
2/2019
Forum AI
From a province to the state, and back:
The Russian Northwest and Finland during the revolutionary years
SUMMARY:
The introduction to the forum “From a Province to the State, and Back: The Russian Northwest and Finland during the Revolutionary Years” maps its spatial and chronological focus. The turbulent political events and social dislocations in the wake of the February Revolution in Russia revealed the dialectics of a civil war and a national war. As the cases of White Sea Karelia and the former Grand Duchy of Finland had demonstrated, a seemingly internal conflict was prone to spilling across the border, while an international confrontation had roots in unresolved domestic problems.