Abstract
Abstract This article analyzes Finnish immigration from Canada and the United States to Soviet Karelia in the first part of the 1930s. The author places the move in the context of international, national, and regional socio-political discourses. The socio-economic effects of the Great Depression on Finnish communities in North America, coupled with the determination of the recruiters who were acting on behalf of the Karelian leadership, created an opportunity for many left-leaning Finns to seek livelihood in the Soviet Union. The article also examines data from the Resettlement Agency of the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Karelia. Statistical analysis allows for insight into the reasons for immigration and into the differences between the US and Canadian immigrant groups.
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