Irina Takala
Irina Takala (Russian: Ирина Рейевна Такала; born December 28, 1955) is a Russian historian and educator. Her interests include history of Finland and Karelia, Finland–Russia relations, Stalinism, alcoholism in Russia.[1]
Education and research
In 1978 she graduated from Petrozavodsk State University specializing in history. In 1984 she earned Ph.D. with thesis "Россия и общественная мысль Финляндии (20-е – начало 60-х гг. XIX в.)" ["Russia and Finnish Social Thought (1820s – early 1860s)"].[1]
She started her research on Stalinist persecution of Finns in early 1990s, when many (but not all) KGB archives were opened under Boris Yeltsin. She has become interested in this, because more than 10 members of her immediate family were victims to varying degrees. However under Vladimir Putin they were closed again, and materials about victims are available only to close relatives.[2]
Books
- 2002: Финны в Карелии и в России: История возникновения и гибели диаспоры
- 2002: «Веселие Руси». История алкогольной проблемы в России
- 2014: (with Alexey Golubev Alexey Golubev) Search for a Socialist El Dorado: Finnish Immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press; Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press
- 2019: (Russian translation, expanded with new material) В поисках социалистического Эльдорадо: севе В поисках социалистического Эльдорадо: североамериканские финны в Советской Карелии 1930-х годов
- 2021: Taistelua ja kuolemaa: Neuvosto-Karjalan suomalaiset 1920- ja 1930-luvull
References
- ^ a b Такала Ирина Рейевна биография и книги
- ^ Arja Paananen, Irina Takala ehti löytää hyytäviä tietoja suomalaisista – sitten FSB:n arkistot suljettiin tutkijoilta [Irina Takala managed to find chilling information about Finns – then the FSB archives were closed to researchers], September 6, 2019
External links
- Irina Takala] publications at academia.edu