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Coming to Terms with Violence: Sacrifice, collective memory and reconciliation in inter-war Finland

Tuomas TeporaHistory Researchers, P. O. Box 4, 00014Helsingin yliopisto, FinlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 487-509 | Published online: 17 Sep 2014

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