Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political
and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years.
David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern
country, for centuries on the east-west divide of Europe, a country
not blessed by nature, most of whose inhabitants still earned a
living from farming fifty years ago, but which today is one of the
most prosperous members of the European Union. He shows how this
small country was able not only to survive in peace and war but
also to preserve and develop its own highly distinctive identity,
neither Scandinavian nor Eastern European. He traces the evolution
of the idea of a Finnish national state, from the long centuries as
part of the Swedish realm, through self-government within the
Russian Empire, and into the stormy and tragic birth of the
independent state in the twentieth century.
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