A Nordic Country with East European Problems: British views on post-war Finland, 1944–1948Footnote¹

1 The title takes its inspiration from the incisive characterization of Finland in the 1930s and in the Second World War by the Finnish historian Oula Silvennoinen: ‘Finland was an East European country with East European problems’. Silvennoinen, ‘Janus of the North’.

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