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Article: Vakivallan vuodet.(Review) (book review)
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- Foreign Policy
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- March 22, 2000
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The Years of Violence (Volume 1)
by Max Jakobson
424 pages, Helsinki: Otava Publishing Company, 1999 (in Finnish)
Max Jakobson became an instant celebrity throughout Europe and the United States in 1961 with the publication of The Diplomacy of the Winter War--a book that placed the Finnish-Soviet war of 1939 in the context of great power politics. Since then he has been required reading for diplomats and journalists trying to understand Russian attitudes toward the West. His latest book, The Years of Violence, is a masterful overview of the century, a narrative with three layers: a bildungsroman about Finland, a diplomatic history of Europe, and ...