The Western Finnic minorities and the origins of the stalinist nationalities deportationsFootnote*

The author thanks the Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University of California, Berkeley, the American Council of Teachers of Russian, the American Philosophical Association, and Franklin and Marshall College for their support. He expresses a special debt to his 1992 Hackman Fellow, Ms. Piret Loone, not only for her translation, but for her judicious analyses of Estonian and Finnish sources

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