Abstract
This article challenges the notion of leisure space as apolitical by investigating why the Karelian Isthmus dacha settlements, located in the Grand Duchy of Finland, served as preparation grounds for clandestine political activity. Using memoirs, newspapers and Russian archival sources, this article reveals how Finland's legal position in the Russian empire, combined with the particularities of dacha life, enabled revolutionary activity in places primarily associated with leisure. Far from being innocuous vacation destinations removed from political problems, the dacha settlements in Finland exposed the diminished capacity of tsarist authorities’ actions on the fringes of the Russian empire.
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