How Finland survived Stalin: from winter war to cold war
by Kimmon Rentola
In the first winter of World War II, Stalin directed his forces to launch an invasion of Finland, in what would become known as the ‘Winter War’. Despite Stalin’s forces vastly outnumbering their Finnish counterparts, the Soviet forces suffered heavy losses and a full-scale invasion was averted. In this work on Soviet-Finnish relations from the Winter War through to the 1950s, we discover just how one small nation stood out against the military might of the Soviet Union – and what it like for the Finnish people who lived through these frightening decades.
Published by Yale University Press at £25 (hardback), ISBN 978000273618. RB