The History of Finland and Russia - Part 1

Support Blitz of the Reich. Check out our online store! [Part 2 of the Series] It may as well be time for me to find a new video editor, but in the meantime I hope you all enjoy this fabulous documentary on Finnish-Russian (Soviet) diplomatic relationships spanning over a thousand years. This episode even covers events that are largely obscure in Western history like the issues revolving around Karelia during the Russian civil war. I tried to cover all the general wars whilst leaving out some of the more unimportant ones. The documentary includes the development of contact between Finnic peoples and Rus during the time of Kievan Rus. It also covers the various wars wrestling control over Karelia, such as the Livonian war, and Great Northern wars. Finally, it covers the Russian invasion of Finland in 1809 in which Sweden ceded the territory to the empire. In addition I have focused the second half of the video more on the autonomy level of the Grand Duchy of Finland within the empire, thus it takes a more legal approach if you get me. Finally the last section of the video covers the tumultuous nature of the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, the Bolshevik rise to power, and the Finnish civil war. I have left out the foundation of the Karelian workers commune as that will be covered in more detail in the next video, along with the Winter War, Continuation War (World War 2), and the Lapland war. Finally, we will begin our descent by covering autonomy changes to the Soviet territory of Karelia, the Helsinki accords, and finally we will talk a bit about the Karelian question and how it affects Finnish-Russian politics today. As always I hope you all enjoy this voyage into the depths of Finnish-Russian history. Feel free to read or check any of the sources below and be sure to watch part 2 (when it comes out, of course)! [Sources] A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End by Peter Kenez Russia And the Russians by Geoffrey Hosking The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 1917-1991 by Richard Sakwa Red Nations by Jeremy Smith Russia A History by Gregory Freeze The Origins of the Karelian Workers’ commune, 1920-1923: Nationalism as the path to communism by Markku Kangaspuro Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015, 4th ed. by Michael Clodfelter [Images] : : : : : : : :Flag_of_Russia_(1918).svg : [Patreon] [Paypal] [Amazon] [Discord]