title: Swedish Volunteers in the Civil War of Finland
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Vasara-Vozgrina, Viena-Tuuli
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T21:51:42Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T21:51:42Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Vasara-Vozgrina V.-T. Swedish Volunteers in the Civil War of Finland. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 1, pp. 245–260.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.114
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17513
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The author of the article focuses on the history of the creation of the Swedish volunteer corps
  (the “Swedish Brigade”) and its military operations during the Finnish Civil War of 1917–
  1918. Extending beyond the genre of a purely military history, the article explores a difficult
  domestic political situation in Sweden, unfavorable for organizing military intervention into
  the internal affairs of a neighboring country. Nevertheless, despite these very serious obstacles,
  the will to fight for a just cause had triumphed — the victory of the “Reds” posed a threat for
  Sweden itself. Therefore, people from the most diverse political beliefs and professions were in
  the Swedish brigade. The age range was also wide — from 16-year-old schoolchildren to elderly
  fathers of families. Since the “White Finns” were a practically untrained military contingent
  that did not even have a coordinating center, the Swedish officers had to create a Finnish General
  Staff for this purpose. Not underestimating the contribution of the Finnish supporters of
  independence to the victory and of C. G. Mannerheim personally, the author of the article pays
  tribute to the heroic struggle of the Swedish Corps against the prevailing enemy forces, which
  claimed the lives of many. The article is based on memoirs and diaries of the participants in
  the Finnish Civil War, as well as on the studies of Swedish and Finnish historians published in
  the 1920s — 2010s.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sweden
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Finland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bolsheviks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Civil War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Volunteer Corps
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: C. G. Mannerheim
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Swedish Volunteers in the Civil War of Finland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 245-260.pdf
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